One year ago today, the amazing and very brave Mish from Eating Journey EXPOSED herself to the world for the very first time. This unbelievable act of bravery has inspired 60 other bloggers to follow in her footsteps – each choosing to expose themselves in ways that were unique to them and their audience. I [...]
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Raise you’re hand if you’re a control freak. Anyone? Anyone? Ha. Guess it’s just me then… For the majority of my life, one of my most important coping mechanisms of the myriad of body image/sexual trauma/compulsive eating/institutional family dysfunction has been ruling over my own little universe with an iron fist. This mechanism manifests in [...]
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I do my best not to spend too much time alone. I know what you’re thinking – it’s healthy to be alone sometimes. It’s good to settle into yourself without the distractions of everyday life. There are so many truths hiding in the absence of noise, whether it be the crackle of the radio, or [...]
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Today, I am moving to Boston. I will tell you – I am scared. So today, instead of allowing myself to stew in my fears, I’m going to participate in a little project wherein I just lay all of my fears out there, thereby getting them out of my head and my heart so that [...]
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Yes. It’s as simple as that. But don’t you worry – I’ll elaborate, if only because I’m not really an answer-in-one-word-kind-of-girl, if you know what I mean, and since you read this blog, I’m fairly certain that you do. This question has been sort of circulating around the internet as of late, particularly in regards [...]
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Now, I know that y’all are freaking SICK of hearing about BlogHer this past weekend, but it was such a major personal learning experience for me that I feel as though I would be careless not to share it with you, particularly in regards to my last What IF Wednesday post about truly valuing myself [...]
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Or, Why I Refused To Starve Myself For The Photoshoot. I will warn you that if you are easily triggered, this post may prove upsetting for you. I talk very blatantly about my disordered eating emotions/thought patterns and extreme body image lows, though there is a happy ending, I pinky swear. Now. I thought that [...]
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Yep. You read that right. And today’s What If Wednesday is a major, major, major one, because this week is the deadline for a project I have been working up the bravery for, oh, since I was asked to take part. And I’m really effing nervous. I mentioned in Sunday’s Body Loving Blogosphere that you all [...]
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I’m a bit of a dweller. As in – obsesser, panic creator, incessant doubter, and all around anxiety ridden girl. However. I’m working really hard on changing my ways. The fact of the matter is: when you expect bad things to happen – they do. But when you expect and anticipate little miracles everywhere, magic [...]
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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.
