This post was written by Alice Oates as a part of the Teen Week: Words That Heal series. Want to participate? Check out the details here. I’ve now reached that very strange point that everyone must reach where next birthday I will not be a teenager anymore. It has its own terrifying connotations of being [...]
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Today we’re going to chat about what it was like to be a teenager. Stereotypically? Acne. Lockers. Backseats. “It’s Complicated.” Prom queens. Bullies. Varsity teams. Also: Vulnerability. Dissociated promiscuity. Disordered eating. Trend-oriented. Poverty. Fear. Confusion. Inactivity. ______________________________________________ When I was a teenager, I was terrified, most seconds of most days. I was scared that I [...]
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For much of my life as a compulsive eater, the cycle looked like this: Trigger + Sudden urge to “take care of myself” and “treat myself kindly” = “Waking up” in a sea of wrappers with a stomach ache and a broken heart I would encounter something that made me feel badly about myself, and [...]
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This guest post is written the by The Headologist, Ellie Di. It’s incredibly easy to be sick of hearing about “tough love” these days. Seems like every coach and their mother is into it; hell, even Oprah’s talking about it. We tend to dismiss the idea out of hand because if it’s so common it [...]
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How many times have you broken a promise to yourself? Whether it is due to a careful negotiation of whether or not you truly deserve what you’ve promised, or whether it just goes by the wayside in the busyness of your daily life – we have a tendency not to follow through on the promises [...]
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I’ve been dreaming about this post for a month. I’ve been wondering exactly how to describe this feeling of loss that I have. Loss that I can’t quite put my finger on. Without consuming ____ to glue together all of my jagged edges, I feel a little like a bag of mirror shards, clanging around [...]
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This is a guest post written by KatieP of Head ♥ Heart ♥ Health. In September 2009, bloated and hungover from another binge and dealing with the chronic pain of too many laxatives, I realised I had an eating disorder and started on my road to recovery. What I’ve never talked about is that this wasn’t the [...]
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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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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.
