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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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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This is a guest post whipped up for you guys by Marsha Hudnall and her fabulous crew at Green Mountain at Fox Run. I hope that you find this useful – it’s a lot of information. My recommendation is that if it’s something you think you will need to keep touching base with, bookmark it. [...]
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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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Today, I make the choice to love my body. I make the choice to put my own needs ahead of mycoulda, woulda, shoulda, but only if I, or maybe if I, or what if it was thinking. Today I am recommiting myself to slowing down, to taking the time to notice what my body needs, [...]
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The other day, mid tropical storm or hurricane backlash or whatever it was that demolished my yard, I found myself overcome with the strangest feeling. The feeling was this: There is not enough food in all the world to fill me. We are going to be without food for days. I need to stockpile as [...]
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Once upon a time, a reader of Medicinal Marzipan admitted that she was tentative of reading stories of self-love, because she was afraid of becoming “as fat as a house.” This concept was the driving force behind the Marzipan Manifesto – where I broke the ties between self-love and indiscriminate weight gain, and I was [...]
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Has this ever happened to you? Ok, Ok, I KNOW that I’m supposed to _________ (love myself, eat healthy, eat intuitively, not compare my body to others, be sweet to the skin I’m in, buy clothing in the size that I truly am and not be sorry about it, feel good about myself naked, drink [...]
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A LOT of people ask my why I named this blog Medicinal Marzipan. It’s one of those “branding” things that you really need to have a good quick elevator pitch to describe, but to this point it’s something that I’ve fumbled with. I’ve said things like, well my nickname was Marzipan in college, and um [...]
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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.
