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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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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This week, an awesome reader [Debbie Scribble] sent me a link to this article from the Huffington Post – Half of Men Say They Would Leave a Partner Who Gained Weight: Survey. Beside the glaringly obvious nausea inducing concept revealed in the title, the article mentions several studies done around the world that indicate the [...]
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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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Now, this post was originally entitled Believing You are Worth It, but y’all asked me to get really basic and really specific with you about how to “get there.” Presuming “there” is: a perfectly imperfect, always evolving, state of unconditional self-love and building a compassionate, kind relationship with your body – You’ve come to the [...]
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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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Now – if you’re new here, welcome to Medicinal Marzipan, where no topic is off limits and where TMI is both frequent and expected. Please, keep reading. Haha. Well now that we’ve gotten THAT disclaimer out of the way, lets discuss. I am a busy girl. I am busy moving and shaking and making insane [...]
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Hello hello marzipanlings! Happy Saturday! Today I am Mary’s guest blogger over at A Merry Life, blogging about my history with compulsive eating and body image. A Merry Life is a blog about healthy living, weight loss, and nutrition, and is absolutely awesome and worth checking out immediately. She is also the author of A [...]
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I spent the first twenty-two years of my life waiting. I was waiting until I was prettier, better dressed, smarter, richer, more successful, happier, but mostly – thinner. I had my entire life on hold waiting, hoping that *next* time I’d be able to keep off the weight, *next* time I’d fit into a size [...]
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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.
