Flying or Falling? Can you have one without the other? The thing about depression is that you don’t know how bad you feel until you don’t feel bad anymore. It’s like wearing a veil that subtly shades everything in your life until you can’t remember a time when rainbows weren’t made in varying grays and …
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Love hurts. But hate hurts worse. And disinterest may be the most painful of all. The other day I had a conversation that went something like this: Friend*: Oh hey, I’ll see you tomorrow night at X’s! Me: For what? Friend (eyes widening in panic): Ah um, her dinner party? (As I remain silent she …
I can’t help it – every time I think of obsessive navel gazing, I look to the master. Of course Inigo Montoya was completely awesome. Having a year-plus of Intuitive Eating* under my belt and counting nary a single calorie, fat gram or carb in that time has made me a bit cocky, I’ll admit …
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Please, please ignore my model face. I have no idea what I’m doing. This was just the best shot of the skirt. “Get a hobby!” Every time I get caught up in my issues, like the other day when I complained about my waist getting bigger (Mary Kate astutely commented, “Why are you measuring …
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Nothing like the glaring light of social media to make you see yourself differently. Especially at 11:30 at night. When I first saw my friend’s status update on Facebook, my heart froze in my chest. Immediately I knew it was about me and I knew it wasn’t good. Fear, anger, sadness, and defensiveness all shot …
Well now THAT’S just ridiculous. Old habits die hard for anyone but for those of us with OCD tendencies, old habits need a wooden stake to the heart, a silver bullet, a clove of garlic and a whole a whole cart full of Wal-Mart clothing to die. (What? Apparently nothing slays Hollywood vampires like bad …
image credit Buying a pregnancy test is always a fraught experience. You’re either praying to Fisher-Price that it says yes or pleading to Durex it says no. I don’t know any woman that says, “Eh, I’m not feeling a movie tonight. Let’s go get a pregnancy test – just for funzies!” Remember that Walgreens cashiers the …
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Do you remember the first time you were made to feel less than? You aren’t born knowing that. It was because somebody told you. As a mother, once of the first things I noticed about my tiny children is how everything they do, everything they are, is the most wonderful magic to them. Toes wiggling? …
Holidays can be scary times for people with food issues. For many years I spent the run-up to certain holidays panicking about what I was going to eat (or not eat) at home, at friends’ houses, at parties, at restaurants, at the next Royal Wedding (Seriously, was Kate’s dress not gorgeous? Also, now I want …
Worst idea ever (second only to flags as apparel, as you shall soon see): The night my roommates and I decided to sit in a big circle and tell each person what bugged us about them. It started with “she leaves her shoes in front of the door” and quickly progressed to “she poops pebbles like …
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