Today we’re going to chat about what it was like to be a teenager. Stereotypically? Acne. Lockers. Backseats. “It’s Complicated.” Prom queens. Bullies. Varsity teams. Also: Vulnerability. Dissociated promiscuity. Disordered eating. Trend-oriented. Poverty. Fear. Confusion. Inactivity. ______________________________________________ When I was a teenager, I was terrified, most seconds of most days. I was scared that I [...]
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For much of my life as a compulsive eater, the cycle looked like this: Trigger + Sudden urge to “take care of myself” and “treat myself kindly” = “Waking up” in a sea of wrappers with a stomach ache and a broken heart I would encounter something that made me feel badly about myself, and [...]
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This guest post is written the by The Headologist, Ellie Di. It’s incredibly easy to be sick of hearing about “tough love” these days. Seems like every coach and their mother is into it; hell, even Oprah’s talking about it. We tend to dismiss the idea out of hand because if it’s so common it [...]
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How many times have you broken a promise to yourself? Whether it is due to a careful negotiation of whether or not you truly deserve what you’ve promised, or whether it just goes by the wayside in the busyness of your daily life – we have a tendency not to follow through on the promises [...]
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This post was written by Sally McGraw of Already Pretty. You know how, when you’re feeling kinda wretched about the current state of your bod, you tend to lose interest in shopping? And eventually, shopping apathy morphs into diminished interest in clothes? And sometimes THAT indifference becomes an inability to engage in basic grooming? It’s [...]
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This post was written by Patti of Not Dead Yet Style. Oh boy, this is a pet peeve. I hear it mostly on the home shopping channels (gulp, if I ever, um, happen to have the TV tuned to one of them while I am, errr, polishing up an article for the New York Times). [...]
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This post is written by Caitlin of Fit and Feminist. Recently, I came across a blog post by a personal trainer in which she explored the one of my least favorite terms as applied to women’s bodies – the word “bulky.” Any weight-training woman is familiar with this term, as it is often the first [...]
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This is a guest post written by the lovely Kate of Eat the Damn Cake. I write about body image because I love eating cake, but women around me are always dieting. I write about body image because I have been told it doesn’t matter, but every year, more girls have eating disorders. I write [...]
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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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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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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.
