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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Today, I make the choice to love my body. I make the choice to put my own needs ahead of mycoulda, woulda, shoulda, but only if I, or maybe if I, or what if it was thinking. Today I am recommiting myself to slowing down, to taking the time to notice what my body needs, [...]
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The other day, mid tropical storm or hurricane backlash or whatever it was that demolished my yard, I found myself overcome with the strangest feeling. The feeling was this: There is not enough food in all the world to fill me. We are going to be without food for days. I need to stockpile as [...]
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Once upon a time, a reader of Medicinal Marzipan admitted that she was tentative of reading stories of self-love, because she was afraid of becoming “as fat as a house.” This concept was the driving force behind the Marzipan Manifesto – where I broke the ties between self-love and indiscriminate weight gain, and I was [...]
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or: Why I Wake Up Every Morning Still Passionate About This Work. On Monday, I guest posted over at Stop Chasing Skinny about “the” moment when I realized that I had to start learning how to love my body exactly as it was, or face complete and utter self-destruction. It is sort of funny to [...]
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Aright internet, even though I’ve been doing my very best to keep to myself these days, think nice thoughts, and not worry about what others are doing. This post was unavoidable – Jess Weiner’s Weight Struggle: “Loving My Body Almost Killed Me.” In fact I barely want to link it here, because I am likening [...]
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Has this ever happened to you? Ok, Ok, I KNOW that I’m supposed to _________ (love myself, eat healthy, eat intuitively, not compare my body to others, be sweet to the skin I’m in, buy clothing in the size that I truly am and not be sorry about it, feel good about myself naked, drink [...]
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A LOT of people ask my why I named this blog Medicinal Marzipan. It’s one of those “branding” things that you really need to have a good quick elevator pitch to describe, but to this point it’s something that I’ve fumbled with. I’ve said things like, well my nickname was Marzipan in college, and um [...]
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This week I’m in Washington DC participating in a course on political advocacy and social action, and have been spending my days immersed in theory and political jargon. However, when I’m not writing a zillion papers, or figuring out how to ask Congressional aides questions that don’t make me sound like an idiot, I have [...]
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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.
