
Jennifer Polle, creator of Hypnosis CDs and MP3s, has lovingly lent herself to us for the day. I found myself so curious about her business, I wanted to be able to share a little more of it here with all of you. Additionally (squee!) Jennifer has offered a little giveaway to one lucky Marzipanling – [...]

The thing about recovery, or the feeling of being recovered, from something is that on occasion, when you least expect it, you find yourself throttled back to a moment when you were not quite at your best. In my experience, it happens suddenly and completely. Now, I do not claim to be recovered from twenty-some-odd [...]

On Monday, I was quickly perusing twitter, when I came across this tweet from the deliciously insightful Danielle LaPorte: This post got me thinking, and I felt the urge to get rid of some lingering negative thought patterns and behaviors from my life, written in the first person, because, you know, I love to dream [...]
Raise you’re hand if you’re a control freak. Anyone? Anyone? Ha. Guess it’s just me then… For the majority of my life, one of my most important coping mechanisms of the myriad of body image/sexual trauma/compulsive eating/institutional family dysfunction has been ruling over my own little universe with an iron fist. This mechanism manifests in [...]
I do my best not to spend too much time alone. I know what you’re thinking – it’s healthy to be alone sometimes. It’s good to settle into yourself without the distractions of everyday life. There are so many truths hiding in the absence of noise, whether it be the crackle of the radio, or [...]
Now this is not a traditional What IF Wednesday, but this topic is especially salient today because I just registered for classes for my Fall 2010 semester at Simmons School of Social Work. Thus, obviously, I already knew I was taking this next step. But, I made it this far in the process by kind [...]
And, magically, it’s Wednesday again! Things have been moving quickly here at Medicinal Marzipan, and the days just seem to be slipping away from me. But, I was pretty excited to wake up this morning with a bevy of awesome What If Wednesdays laid out for me by the ever fabulous Fitarella, including a post [...]

Because sometimes, even when you have the best of the best blog intentions, you find yourself impromptu whale watching in the middle of the afternoon on a beautiful day of with your little love. before whale sighting a breach! a breach! What did you do today that brought you back to living 100% in the [...]
I know, I know, this is a preemptive “what if” wednesday installation, but this post is of the utmost importance and it simply could not wait. This is not an orthodox what if anyway, as it doesn’t address any of my five initial questions, but it seems important all the same. So here we go: [...]

Never have I ever set foot outside an airport in North Carolina!! And it was wonderful, truly. I had just the most wonderful little visit in Chapel Hill as C and I continued our trip south. This trip has kind of been a reunion tour of sorts, as I have been able to reconnect and [...]