You know all of those things that you’ve been holding onto for as long as you can remember, because you kind of sort of think maybe you were to blame for them or they reaffirmed what you’ve always suspected has been true about you or you just can’t really seem to let them go? Today [...]
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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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Last month, I had the extreme pleasure of being the self-love ambassador for Sacred Self. In this post, there was the promise of a giveaway, wherein I would choose a comment about a body image woe and I would write a post about it. WELL. Those commenters were just so wonderful and insightful that I [...]
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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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I am going to begin this post with the reasons why, in three years of blogging about body image, this is a topic that I chronically dance around, dipping my toe in and running away terrified. I’ve noticed that many people like to talk about their body in one of two ways: as something they [...]
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This post is my contribution to this month’s Self-Discovery Word by Word organized by Taron of Mind, Body & Scroll. Taron chose the word LOVE for this month’s series – find out how to participate by checking out her introductory post here. And it just so happens that this month has us celebrating ONE YEAR [...]
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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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or: Why I Wake Up Every Morning Still Passionate About This Work. On Monday, I guest posted over at Stop Chasing Skinny about “the” moment when I realized that I had to start learning how to love my body exactly as it was, or face complete and utter self-destruction. It is sort of funny to [...]
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Aright internet, even though I’ve been doing my very best to keep to myself these days, think nice thoughts, and not worry about what others are doing. This post was unavoidable – Jess Weiner’s Weight Struggle: “Loving My Body Almost Killed Me.” In fact I barely want to link it here, because I am likening [...]
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