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Feel It All
Feel it all the happiness the joy the excitement the love Feel it all the sadness the pain the terror the disgust Feel it all the discontent the frustration the indifference the despair Feel it all the butterflies the unicorns the rainbows the stars Just feel it all...
Up and Down, Up and Down – How to learn to Go with the Flow
One day you feel great about your body, the next day you feel homeless. One day you like your legs, the next day you wish you could cut them off. One day you look in the mirror and are confident, the next day you hate everything you see. It's a constant up and down...
When Your Life Revolves Around Your Scale
I’ve been getting Facebook reminders of how miserable I used to be. of the pain I used to feel. of the heartache I used to experience. Years ago. In another life. The life that was solely focused on food on my body on calories on not gaining weight. The life that...
Listening to Your Body: The Key to True Self-Care
We like to think we’re the ones taking care of our bodies. However, listening to your body is key to truly understanding its needs. Sometimes we’re diligent about self-care, and other times, we completely ignore what our body needs. There are moments when we’re...
Love is everything. Self-love is the beginning.
You are not too old. You are not too young. You are exactly where you need to be at this moment in time. Exactly where you’re supposed to be to do what needs to happen in your life. That thing you’ve always wanted to do - the healing the breaking free the forgiving...
What would self-love do?
It was about 3 weeks into isolation with just Johann and I being together ALL THE TIME that I realized something was wrong. Really wrong. Like, ‘I-really-want-to-sell-him-at-the-market’ kind of wrong. You know the feeling, right? I mean, he’s a great kid, a really...
B.R.E.A.T.H.E. | Finding Safety in Uncertain Times
With the world around us being totally out of our control (as if things ever are/were in our control), one of the practices to lean on (in order to not fall into deep despair) is to consciously and mindfully breathe. And by breathing I don’t only refer to the the...
Change. The only Constant.
Change. We experience it dramatically right now, but we've lived through it before. Remember? Remember the times when you used to wake up, step on the scale and plan your day, your week, your month or year depending on the number you saw? Remember the times when you...
You don’t need to be someone you’re not – especially now!
Do you know how precious you are? Do you know how needed you are? Do you know that you're not an accident, something that just happened to happen? Do you know that you were born exactly as you were meant to be, look, love, shape this world? Do you know? Or, more...
Holy Ground
What if your body was holy ground? What if you treated her with respect - now? Not when you're thin - Not when you're "in shape" - Not when you've adopted "good" habits around food. But right now. What would change? What would you do? What would you let go of? How...
Discipline in Healing: Is this a thing?
We live in a world that rewards discipline in all areas of life and especially in the area of body-control. The thinner you are, the more discipline you show (in people's eyes), the more people admire you. No matter how toxic and destructive this kind of discipline...
I woke up hungry
I have lost control over my appetite and I've been fighting fighting all day fighting every minute I woke up hungry oh so hungry and yet I lost control I lost control over myself I ate I couldn't not I was so hungry and yet I didn't want to I ate so much yesterday No,...