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Today is the day – Practical Self-Love Coaching – my newest and most sparkly venture is born, and because I believe in emotional manifesting, I have decided to introduce it to you by answering Danielle LaPorte’s Burning Question: How Do You Want It All To Feel? Because, if I don’t show up and describe to [...]

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Excavating Shame

by Marzipan on January 29, 2012 · 29 comments

terminal91 - the color of shame

You know all of those things that you’ve been holding onto for as long as you can remember, because you kind of sort of think maybe you were to blame for them or they reaffirmed what you’ve always suspected has been true about you or you just can’t really seem to let them go? Today [...]

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I remember the day that I was told, calmly and self-assuredly by a friend that I had made plans with that she was going to have to break her plans, because she had over-extended herself and had changed her mind about wanting to go out. At first, I was angry. I was all – are [...]

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Note from Marzipan: Good morning! Today you all get an extra special treat – a guest post from my mother, the love artist. I asked her to post here to get a little well deserved attention for the kickstarter campaign that she’s created in an effort to finish her memoir. I assure you, she is [...]

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love note / nota de amor

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 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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Headphones

This is the excitement phase. The FUCK YOU I love my body, and I don’t give a shit what you say phase. The growth spurt phase. The glorious after-effect of realizing that there is a better way to live phase. In short, this is the time where you have made the decision to love your body, have worked [...]

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You Are Worth The Effort

by Marzipan on January 2, 2012 · 17 comments

Sparkle

This week, I am going to run a series on how to start loving yourself, beginning tomorrow, but in planning the series, I suddenly realized how important it was to write a preliminary post to create the space for the others. The truth of the matter is, you have to believe you are worth your [...]

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I Love Your Guts Embroidery Hoop Art

Last month, I had the extreme pleasure of being the self-love ambassador for Sacred Self.  In this post, there was the promise of a giveaway, wherein I would choose a comment about a body image woe and I would write a post about it. WELL. Those commenters were just so wonderful and insightful that I [...]

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I just had to repost this here. Loving that little girl. What do you think?

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