mental health

this is what progress looks like

July 22, 2010

Or, Why I Refused To Starve Myself For The Photoshoot. I will warn you that if you are easily triggered, this post may prove upsetting for you. I talk very blatantly about my disordered eating emotions/thought patterns and extreme body image lows, though there is a happy ending, I pinky swear. Now. I thought that [...]

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creating a safe space for change

March 4, 2010

I spend much of my adult life looking for holes in my ever thickening atmosphere of comfort and safety, trying to figure out how to better insulate and support myself. I am the type of girl who needs serious continuity and stability. I need to know where my stuff is, how I’m going to get [...]

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Learning to Love Yourself, Even When You Feel Awful

December 28, 2009

Now, I have written MANY posts about learning to love yourself. So many posts you may be sick of them by now, but since this is a concept that I continue to struggle with, I have faith that this still applies to some of you. Often when I write about this topic, I try my [...]

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attn: marzipan, have become a complete nutcase

August 26, 2009

I am losing (have lost?) my mind. It appears that after the kajillionth week of working at least three too many jobs, begging the universe to bring me my future, scheming and processing and dreaming and processing some more, I have hit a wall. I am whiny. I am heartsick. I have bags under my [...]

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NEW body lovin’ homework

July 27, 2009

Hello darlings, Well it has been a WHIRLWIND week here at medicinal marzipan, with much moving and shaking that has left me more than a little brain dead. And, though I’m feeling a little hard-pressed to string more than two words together, I wanted to give you the new body lovin’ homework week two. I will [...]

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