happiness

So, on monday I wrote a post entitled Learning To Love Yourself, Even When You Feel Awful in which I promised a follow up on tips that would help you learn to love yourself during the hardest and most terrible body image lows, AND then I thought, how perfect would that be in the form [...]

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dream incubation

by Marzipan on September 30, 2009 · 3 comments

goldegg

I was just reading Gala Darling’s Things I Love Thursday, in which she states that she recently found a scrap of paper on which she had written the phrase “dream incubation,” and I was struck by the phrase as I was walking around my house. Dream incubation. I’ve written before about manifesting and believing in [...]

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Food-Safety

or, Lessons I Don’t Want to Teach My Daughters, depending. I feel revolting. I am too busy to feel revolting. And yet, here I am, again, feeling like my skin is too tight and I am suffocating in my overwhelming need to consume. I will give myself a slight reprieve: I did quit smoking – [...]

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When I was a kid I was pretty generally terrified. I would lie awake in my bed, night after night, tensely alert because I was sure that if my eyes closed even for a second something terrible would happen. I was afraid of the things that people were capable of doing when no one was [...]

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marzipan LOVES: july

by Marzipan on July 30, 2009 · 0 comments

So grateful for: pond swimming sisters local blueberry pie my red couch etta kostick jewelry avocados sauvignon blanc 1991 dance parties LED hula hoops love letters lamb meatballs my ohio extended lovefest and FIRST EVER summer vacation kale army wives being so wicked in love bust having the urge to quit smoking my car, mary [...]

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hello my loves,  I apologize that the blog has been up and down and all around today, I (a very silly little computer novice) have been in the process of changing medicinalmarizpan’s server, which has been a wild ride filled with highs, lows, much caffeine, tears, trembling with glee, and lastly, a crick in my [...]

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fiberopticwallpapes

I have VERY EXCITING NEWS. Here at medicinal marzipan, I have been dreaming and stewing on new and fantastic ways that we can learn how to love ourselves better, and honor our bodies more – exactly as they are. Therefore, I am I am incredibly pleased to introduce Body Lovin’ Homework, a new weekly addition [...]

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Dear Marzipan, I read your blog last week when you wrote about manifesting, which is something that I’d already been working on in my personal life. I wondering if you have any tips for keeping a negative friend from ruining your positive outlook? I love my friend, but sometimes her negative energy is really difficult [...]

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I believe in manifesting your own destiny. I believe in it whole-heartedly. I believe that if you are able to concretely imagine the life that you want, not just abstractly wishing for something better or wanting more from your daily grind or a better lover or bank account, but being able to specifically determine your [...]

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Dear Medicinal Marzipan, Your response to last week’s Ask Marizpan post was very helpful! Here’s my issue: When I’m in a relationship I tend to throw all my energies into it and into my partner? I get so enraptured in all the intense, romantic, and intimate feelings, but sometimes forget to love myself and lose who [...]

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