This post has been whipped up by the fantastic Sarah Von Bargen, over at Yes and Yes, which is just one of my all-time faves. Run, don’t walk. Enjoy! Is it weird if I tell you that I have some very, very attractive lady friends? Well, I do. They’re my friends because they’re smart, funny, [...]
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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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I am going to assume that I was not the only little kid, teenager, or, adult to fantasize about what it would be like to live in a body that wasn’t the one that I was living in. The body that I imagined myself in was effortlessly thin. She was so gorgeous, and her skin [...]
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This is the excitement phase. The FUCK YOU I love my body, and I don’t give a shit what you say phase. The growth spurt phase. The glorious after-effect of realizing that there is a better way to live phase. In short, this is the time where you have made the decision to love your body, have worked [...]
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Yesterday, we squared away your starting point in the post You Are Worth the Effort, but I bet some of you were reading that post wondering to yourself – yeah yeah but what do I do now? Well, now, you stack the deck in your favor. You gather your resources, your inspiration points, your support [...]
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So, I never thought I was into rituals. Probably because I had little to no idea what that meant, but I was pretty sure it had something to do with The Craft. I’m the kind of person who sees a trailer for a scary movie and has nightmares for weeks, so I knew I didn’t want [...]
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Over the past couple of months, I have been honored to work on a project created by Rachel Cole and Lori Race aimed towards helping women, both young and old, choose to regard their bodies sweetly and with relentless compassion. They have been working really hard to bring together women of all stages in their [...]
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This post was written by Ega Jones, who is just one of my absolute favorite bloggers. I feel really honored to have her permission to reprint it here for all of you. Let me tell you something about the world that I tried desperately not to know, but was forced to learn. No one else [...]
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I have a sneaking suspicion that many of the people who read this blog are remarkable caregivers, and I have been thinking about all of you this week. The thing about being a great caregiver is that it is a quality that is universally liked by those who are being cared for, but sometimes they’ve [...]
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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.
