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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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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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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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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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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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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So, I never thought I was into rituals. Probably because I had little to no idea what that meant, but I was pretty sure it had something to do with The Craft. I’m the kind of person who sees a trailer for a scary movie and has nightmares for weeks, so I knew I didn’t want [...]
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Over the past couple of months, I have been honored to work on a project created by Rachel Cole and Lori Race aimed towards helping women, both young and old, choose to regard their bodies sweetly and with relentless compassion. They have been working really hard to bring together women of all stages in their [...]
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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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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.
