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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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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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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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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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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This is a guest post whipped up for your reading pleasure by the lovely Ega Jones. Enjoy! Here’s a little secret about me: I believe that the universe picks up on the energy we put out and sends it right back to us. Yeah, I said it. That’s how I think the world works. (You [...]
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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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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.
