You all know that I love a little Alexandra Franzen. I love her site. I love her words. I love her the things that she makes me think. But, most of all? I loved this post. It’s ok.. you can skip on over and read it, I’ll wait. Your unresolved stories are sick. More specifically [...]
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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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A LOT of people ask my why I named this blog Medicinal Marzipan. It’s one of those “branding” things that you really need to have a good quick elevator pitch to describe, but to this point it’s something that I’ve fumbled with. I’ve said things like, well my nickname was Marzipan in college, and um [...]
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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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I’ve been having a difficult time lately with my body. We have not been getting along. It will not do anything I say, stubbornly holding on to the (fat) cells which protect it from my anger and meanness, knowing full and well that my mind has not been in the right place and I have [...]
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Happy memorial day weekend! I have been busily driving crazy baby lesbians around in a cab for eighteen hours a day with my beautiful sisters for Mercedes Cab, what have you been doing to celebrate? This has been a great week for body-loving posts! It seems that most of my favorite blogs have been inspired [...]
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Hello hello and welcome to the first for real, very serious, weekly installment of body loving posts of the blogosphere! Since it’s been so long since my last post of this nature I have oodles of fun and beautiful reads for you! Una Bella Vita, You Can Be Loved Every Woman Has an Eating Disorder, Stories: [...]
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I know you think I’ve abandoned you. In some ways perhaps this is true, so I will give you that, but I assure you that I still love you. In fact I have been spending much time thinking about the many many ways in which to serve you better and bring you more fun, more [...]
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today’s NaNoWriMo excerpt: When you’re an adult, eating becomes different.Instead of being told what to eat, or sitting down to an already prepared meal, or scavenging for as snack in the cupboards filled by your parents, you possess the ability to get in your car, go to the store, decide what you want, and open [...]
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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.
