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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This winter, for a class, I was asked to attend an open 12-Step meeting of my choosing and observe the group dynamics. Instead of choosing something easier, I decided to find my local Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meeting and check it out. It was important to me to choose a group that I could participate in [...]
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In chronological order, in honor of International No Diet Day: I remember being in third grade, and telling my friends that I was only going to drink water for three days. I remember feeling targeted and alone, because I couldn’t run the mile for the President’s Physical Fitness Test. Year after year after year. I [...]
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When I first left my home with C behind, to move up to Boston to start grad school, I wrote a post about what to do when you’re lonely. At the time, I was in a really hard place, and I needed to structure my time so that I didn’t feel like I was going [...]
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I’ve talked here before about my experiences as a compulsive eater for much of my life, but if you’re new here and want the back story: Eating with Intent, Compulsive Eating: Situations and Solutions, Compulsive Eating, and Confessions of a Compulsive Eater Part II. Confession: This weekend I ate a lot of cannolis. And pasta. [...]
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Lately I have been thinking a lot about how lovely it would feel to go on vacation. A long vacation. A vacation that looked like this: Marzipan, her sweetheart, her computer, a couple of magazines, cup of coffee, and beach, for approximately 30 days. But we’ll just file that away under Things You Dream About [...]
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A new wave of research discussed by the New York Times a couple of weeks ago begins with a single question: Do you treat yourself as well as you treat your friends and family? The article goes on to talk about a new arena of psychological research geared towards the notions of self-compassion and treating [...]
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If you don’t read anything else I write this year, please read this. There has been a conversation simmering beneath the skin around here at Medicinal Marzipan, and it is something that I can no longer choose to ignore because it makes me uncomfortable. The abbreviated version is this: “No, I’m afraid to read her [...]
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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.
