I’ve been dreaming about this post for a month. I’ve been wondering exactly how to describe this feeling of loss that I have. Loss that I can’t quite put my finger on. Without consuming ____ to glue together all of my jagged edges, I feel a little like a bag of mirror shards, clanging around [...]
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If you had asked me on January 13th whether or not I needed to go spend a week in Vermont working on my relationship with my body and food, again, I would have said no. I would have said that I had finally reached a place where I loved my body and that I had [...]
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When you are caught up in diet-mentality, you learn quick that you do not deserve to eat the food that you truly want to consume. You stifle your cravings with a firm word and a stinging insult. You effectively (and efficiently) gain the ability to punish your sweet, tender wild child inside with the imposition [...]
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I have always used food to shut myself up. I remember a day when I was 21, and I was in a relationship that was a really poor fit for me. I thought to myself, I have to keep myself really quite small to fit into the box that this person has me in. Well, [...]
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After yesterday’s post about grieving your body fantasy, I spent the whole day thinking about what I was left with. For example, you decide to let go of the person that you spent twenty-thirty-forty-some-odd years wishing desperately that you could become, what do you do next? Though it was well received by you guys (THANK [...]
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I am going to assume that I was not the only little kid, teenager, or, adult to fantasize about what it would be like to live in a body that wasn’t the one that I was living in. The body that I imagined myself in was effortlessly thin. She was so gorgeous, and her skin [...]
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This is a guest post whipped up for your reading pleasure by intuitive eating coach Christie Inge. Enjoy! I recently sent out a tweet that said: You can’t eat intuitively if you are not living intuitively. It garnered quite the response from the twitter-verse. Let’s just say, for the most part, it wasn’t very well [...]
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This is a guest post whipped up for you guys by Marsha Hudnall and her fabulous crew at Green Mountain at Fox Run. I hope that you find this useful – it’s a lot of information. My recommendation is that if it’s something you think you will need to keep touching base with, bookmark it. [...]
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When I was a kid, I learned this thing from my mother. When she would encounter a situation that displeased her, didn’t match up to her standards, or was simply to be ignored completely she would just kind of pat her hands together as if she were washing them. This action meant (in no uncertain [...]
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I am going to begin this post with the reasons why, in three years of blogging about body image, this is a topic that I chronically dance around, dipping my toe in and running away terrified. I’ve noticed that many people like to talk about their body in one of two ways: as something they [...]
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Medicinal Marzipan is a blog about learning to love yourself a little bit more every day - to the best of your abilities and without any regrets.
