I’ve been having a difficult time lately with my body. We have not been getting along. It will not do anything I say, stubbornly holding on to the (fat) cells which protect it from my anger and meanness, knowing full and well that my mind has not been in the right place and I have [...]
Hello hello and welcome to the first for real, very serious, weekly installment of body loving posts of the blogosphere! Since it’s been so long since my last post of this nature I have oodles of fun and beautiful reads for you! Una Bella Vita, You Can Be Loved Every Woman Has an Eating Disorder, Stories: [...]

I always wanted to be the type of person that you saw in the airport and, in your disheveled, pajama-wearing, bad-haired disorganization, envied deeply for their beautiful, polished, and pulled together splendor. The type of person that is comfortable in a perfectly matching outfit, with neither an ounce of flesh nor a tendril of hair [...]

Last night I lay awake in bed as episode after episode of private practice passed on abc.com, unable to feel my completely exhausted body relax, and unable (perhaps due to the subject matter of my television choice, though it is a personal favorite) to stop thinking about having to go to the doctor in the morning. My [...]

And not because I promised to. Or because it’s October 15th. Or because I want to be a good feminist. Or because I want you to, though I do. Today I love my body because it walks me down the street. It lifts the cup of coffee to my lips in the morning and it [...]