My Mother Died Fat

I’m going a little OT with that headline, I know. Bear with me. Recently my friend Sarah Madison wrote a very powerful essay about the power of self-acceptance and self-love, which focused heavily on her body image issues. To say I related to that whole...

Cleaning House

How do you eat? For me, eating is a constant, 24/7 issue of stress. My mother was crazy (literally, medically) and one of her fixations was body image, so I grew up in a household where losing weight was an obsession — one I inherited, unfortunately. To this day...

Life and Health

Not, you’ll note, “life and death.” Nope. It’s all about Life and Health. 2012 has been the year of difficult health for me; as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, I started the year with whooping-cough. I went through back injury and asthma...