Dear friend, Have you been loving your body lately? Because I haven’t. I’m not quite sure when it started, but I think it was a few months back. The way time flies, it’s probably been frighteningly longer than I care to admit. It started on the day I first called myself “fat.” Now I say […]
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Sometimes it is easy to muffle out this talk and keep moving forward; however, sometimes it isn’t so easy. So for those days when Intuitive Eating seems like the long, straight, and narrow; when the voices of dieters seem to be overpowering the voice of reason; and when those diet books are calling from the “Health/Nutrition” section at Chapters, here is a little reminder…
Reasons to Eat Intuitively Read More »
Recently we shared this image over at Libero Network. I stumbled across it somewhere in the webosphere (credit to recoverylifeandcats.tumblr.com) and it caught my attention. We’ve all seen the Special K adds “What will you gain when you lose?” (a topic for a future post…); however, this image throws it back in Special K’s face
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Happy New Year! 1) I can’t believe it’s taken until January 19th for me to write the first post of the year 2) I can’t believe it’s January 19th. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas/New Years and that you’re ready to take on another year with gusto! Apparently 2015 is the year of
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Confession: I fell behind on work today, and didn’t have the chance to write a new blog. However, as promised, I still plan to be consistent with my weekly posts on Mondays, so I dug this one up from the archives – an oldy but a goodie I think! Hope you enjoy… Originally written by
On Letting Yourself Go… Read More »
Personal Note: I know it’s been a long time since my last post, which explained why it had been a long time since my last post before that (thank you everyone for all of your support!) I am breaking the silence now. I posted this on my personal blog but wanted to share it here, too,
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“So now we get to deal with more liberal fem bullshit.” Yes, apparently that is me: Liberal, Feminist, Bullshit. Tonight shit hit the fan. Literally. OK not literally. But still – literally. The #StopFitspiration haters are back and in full-force. They are coming strong and hard and they are incessant. Tonight I was graced with my
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As some of you know by now, last year under the umbrella of Libero Network I started a #StopFitspiration project. This project has received a lot of feedback – some good, and some bad. The best part is to see the conversation about Fitspiration take off and begin spreading – asking questions, sharing concerns, and
Interview for “The Lunge” – anti-Fitspiration Project Read More »
This post is a follow-up to my previous post “Just Because I Wear Makeup, That Doesn’t Mean I Don’t Like Myself“. I received a response to that post that made me realize that some clarification was needed, and though I realize that there was no real harm in this person’s response, I still wanted to
Just Because You DON’T Wear Makeup, That Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Like Yourself Read More »
I was recently asked by Arielle Lee Bair to write a guest post for her blog on Confidence. Here it is: “Self-love lies as the ground of love; but the paradoxical passion of self-love when at its highest pitch wills precisely its own downfall.” -Søren Kierkegaard Pride: “A high or inordinate opinion of one’s own
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