intuitive eating

Nature Company trashcam gems

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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Sunset

Welp, kiddos it has been a whiiile since I’ve done an Ask Marzipan post, BUT that is because I so rarely get asked questions. That said, I’d love to get back to it, so don’t hold back – email me if you’ve got a question at medicinalmarzipan {at} gmail {dot} com.  Here’s today’s question/anecdote: I [...]

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green mountain at fox fun

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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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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On Loving What Is

by Marzipan on January 11, 2012 · 6 comments

green mountain at fox fun

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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Self-Love for Beginners

by Marzipan on January 3, 2012 · 7 comments

L♥ve

Yesterday, we squared away your starting point in the post You Are Worth the Effort, but I bet some of you were reading that post wondering to yourself – yeah yeah but what do I do now? Well, now, you stack the deck in your favor. You gather your resources, your inspiration points, your support [...]

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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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body wise life design coach

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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Thanksgiving turkey

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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