It seems like so much of the world tells us that we measure our value based on numbers on a scale or on the tag in our pants. I’ve struggled for a long time to break myself of the habit of determining my personal value based on the number on …
Jade The Boxer has gotten to be closer to the baby lately. The big problem is that Jade is very kissy… she’d lick Alex repeatedly if we let her. So it has to be in controlled doses. The doggie loves the baby! I am pretty happy with where I am …
My site “blew up” a couple days ago. It was kind of exhausting to deal with getting it back up while trying to deal with work too. I said I was not going to complain for the rest of pregnancy, but I need to. That was not cool or fair! …
Having an eating disorder is one of the reasons that I thought I might never become pregnant. And it’s true that if someone restricts or binges & purges long enough, they can cause irreversible damage to their fertility. I thought I was going to be one of those statistics. “Having …
This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. The theme for the year is “Everybody Knows Somebody.” The peak onset of eating disorders occurs during puberty and the late teen/early adult years, but symptoms can occur as young as kindergarten. As many as 10 million females and 1 million males in …
I’m pretty sensitive about body image messages in the media. I feel like everything is oversexualized for females of all ages… and that doesn’t mean just adult women. Little girls are being bombarded with messages as well. Toy manufacturers are making toys that should be seemingly innocuous have a sexual …
A friend sent me these in an email and I thought they were kind of hilarious, but also kind of sad. And then there are the ads about men vs. women roles: And then there are the weight-related ones, which kind of surprised me. I knew that the media has …
I’m following in the path of Emilie‘s Embrace:Me movement and writing a post about a part of me that I need to embrace and accept… my legs. I’ve always felt rather negatively about my legs… they’re too short, they’re too thick, they’re ugly… True, my legs are not at all …