Posted in diet, eating disorder, feminism, food on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What do you do in your everyday life that makes you connect to who you really are?
What makes you feel good about yourself that has nothing to do with body image?
Give me anything! Please comment! I really want to know…. (and I know you’ve been reading this, I get my blog stats, just give me [...]
Posted in body image, eating disorder, feminism, food, spirituality on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Ok, here’s a piece I had to jot down for futher exploration-
feeling good- how can we feel good about our souls? About who we really are? Spiritually it means removing barriers like believing a physical body- and I believe to combat the identidy of women as valued by their bodies, we should find alternate ways [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Many of you may not be fully aware of why this is such a big deal for me. I’ll throw some stats at you to start… these are from the NEDIC website
Eating disorders are now the third most common chronic illness in adolescent girls.
Adolescent Medicine Committee, Canadian Paediatric Society. Eating Disorders in adolescents: principles of [...]
Posted in diet, eating disorder, feminism, food on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
So today, I figured out one of the pieces….
At the root of my anger, one of the big pieces- is how even the ways of subverting diets and eating obsession have been co-opted by the beauty ideal. In simple terms, I don’t think many women in this culture can eat food wihtout ideas of body [...]
Posted in feminism, funny on January 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My favorite commercial of the day…
Jessica Alba, striding across a dark screen scene in professional style skirt suit- “Do you know what you want? What you really want?”
“Well I do…” Dramatic pause…
“I really want my foundation to match my skin tone…” Plug for whatever make-up follows
I actually laughed out loud.
Posted in diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Looking back, and forward, I’m wondering about the place of anger. At least now in my life, I can see how angry I am about these issues, how much emotion and frustration gets tied to them. I don’t think anger is an answer in any way, but I do believe that anger brings up issues [...]
Posted in diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, skinny, spirituality on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Though I really ripped apart intuitive eating and other forms of eating disorder therapy yeasterday, I’m a bit calmer now, and would like to clarify a bit.
Its not that intuitive eating is bad at all- if we could all tune into our bodies, it would be a wonderful thing. The problem is that before getting [...]
Posted in diet, eating disorder, fat, fat acceptance, feminism, food, skinny, spirituality on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
the following is unedited rambling, enjoy
The message of every eating disorder help book I’ve ever encountered was this- we understand your problem, we’re here to help, its ok, and we’ll fix you. In the end, I always felt like the author wanted to heal me so much, that they had turned healing into someone that [...]
Posted in abortion, feminism, spirituality on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Abortion is a pretty sad thing, wouldn’t it be great to live in a world where each pregnancy was desired and each child was born into a loving and supportive world? It would be fantastic to live in a world where abortion was illogical and never needed. But its DAMN great that women have the choice, considering [...]
Posted in diet, eating disorder, feminism, spirituality on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve dabbled a lot in a ACIM, Marianne Williamson’s guidance through it is the best I’ve found yet. The MAJOR theme that has been helpful is bringing darkness out, being courageous enough to acknowledge true feelings, in order to heal them. So lately, I’ve been praying. “Dear God, please see how much fear and anguish I [...]
