Here at Medicinal Marzipan I heavily promote learning to love your body regardless of the size, no matter where on the fitness/weight spectrum you fall, and no matter what your age/gender/income/location – I want you to love yourself. Period. Last week, a wonderful and thought provoking post appeared on Make Me A Tree [a totally [...]
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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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I’m not a big fan of using quotation marks excessively, but as I’ve been thinking about this post all day, several thought have occured to me. I meant this to be a post geared towards women who fall outside of the increasingly small sociocultural window of acceptable body weight. I was thinking of girls who [...]
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When I was fourteen I became sexually active. Then, my desire for sexual intimacy spawned out of my perpetual need for personal validation. I was fat. I was scared. And the role models that I most aspired to be were those who were charismatic and provacative, with anyone and everyone falling at their feet. I [...]
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Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Mail!! Now, I get very little feedback on this blog, so usually I feel like a body-image-improving lone ranger sending messages of love and patience into the abyss of the internets. BUT. I do have this awesome little site stats calculator, so I do know that you’re out there. I also have a google [...]
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Lately this has been happening to me with stunning regularity: an older gay person around town looks at me, kind of cocks her head to the side, and says (please note condescension), “Thats so sweet that you are in love, is this your first serious relationship with a girl?” Or something of the like. And [...]
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More and more often lately I have been having conversations with people about their fear and lack of confidence in sexual situations. And I have found myself surprised because these woes have been coming from the least likely suspects, women who I had formerly known to be strong, independent, sexy, and smart. Then I was [...]
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Dear marzipan, when trying to get over a long term relationship – or become friends again (side question – is that possible??), how do you know when enough time has gone by to start talking again? Dearest friend, This seems to be the question of the month! Last week I wrote about life after a [...]
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dear dear medicinal marzipan, i have just come out of a long-term relationship, don’t know the first thing about dating and find myself reverting quickly to cat ladydom. how do you meet new people who you know are into you and emotionally accessible and trustworthy and won’t hurt you and will understand you???? i’d also [...]
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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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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.
