My plan is to live to at least 140 years old.
The Next 100 Years
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Life and all ThatPosts
Starting from Scratch
Like a canary in a coal mine, the act of writing (or not writing) reflects my mental state.
What are Your Four Important Things?
You’ve got four things. That’s it. You may not think so or you may wish it were not so, but it is very much so and the harder we deny it, the harder it is to actually focus on the Four Important Things.
Your body is not a carburetor
We’re taught “calories in/calories out” as if the complex biological system known as the human body is as simplistic as a carburetor engine, and we’ve been taught “eat less/exercise more” under a diametrically opposite belief that the less fuel you give an engine, the more it burns.
“go”
We need to value self-care as a productive activity, in and of itself.
Death match: body dysmorphia vs. visualization
I do not have full-length mirrors in my apartment. The few mirrors I have are hung only to view myself from the shoulders up.
Past is past – bringing in 2015
I wrote the following in my private journal, but I thought it was worth sharing. There is a lot going on in my life that is positive, and despite the fact that 2014 was rocky for a lot of people I know, my year overall was not traumatic. There were good days, there...
Alternative realities, alternative me
I wrote the following on a fb post recently: ...there are aspects of my life I want to change, that I NEED to change for my health and sanity, but are also deeply ingrained as parts of my identity. I have had to let go of so much that I didn't want to lose, that it is...
Fat: Not safe, but safer
It’s probably odd to link #YesAllWomen to body image issues, or maybe not. I’m a bad judge of things like that, but here we are. Reflecting on the experiences of other women and comparing them to my own, I realized that my self-defenses are legend. I did not even know...