This is a guest post written by Michelle of Let’s Radiate and Bombchelle. I used to not be very good at choosing my friends. (Understatement of the year, right there.) I distinctly remember an incident in my sixth grade art class, where we paired up to draw portraits of each other. I paired up with [...]
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This is a guest post written by KatieP of Head ♥ Heart ♥ Health. In September 2009, bloated and hungover from another binge and dealing with the chronic pain of too many laxatives, I realised I had an eating disorder and started on my road to recovery. What I’ve never talked about is that this wasn’t the [...]
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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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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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This post has been whipped up by the fantastic Sarah Von Bargen, over at Yes and Yes, which is just one of my all-time faves. Run, don’t walk. Enjoy! Is it weird if I tell you that I have some very, very attractive lady friends? Well, I do. They’re my friends because they’re smart, funny, [...]
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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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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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Are you taking up residence inside your own skin? Or, are you permitting others (loved ones, peers, multi-national corporations, and the like) tell you how to feel about yourself? Recently, I was watching the film Miss Representation, and I must admit, though I consider myself to be a media-literate person overall – I am still [...]
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I have a sneaking suspicion that many of the people who read this blog are remarkable caregivers, and I have been thinking about all of you this week. The thing about being a great caregiver is that it is a quality that is universally liked by those who are being cared for, but sometimes they’ve [...]
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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.
