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friday favorite: tresses.
So. My hair is awesome. I know I complain about it from time to time, but honestly, it’s pretty rad. Here’s why: It’s naturally wavy/curly. It does pretty much anything I tell it to. It’s finally long...
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friday favorite: grill.
Please excuse the imminent silliness in this post. I’ve gotten a total of, ohhhh, about ten hours of sleep over the past five days. I’m no math major but if I’m not mistaken, that averages out to like...
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friday favorite: outfit.
You know, I don’t have a lot of fashion sense. I typically recycle the same five tee-shirt-jeans-flip-flops-or-holey-sneakers outfits each week. But today, I feel like I kind of pulled something...
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the power of affirmations.
For those of you who missed it, I’ve recently begun seeing a counselor on a regular basis. Counseling, in my opinion, has gotten a bad rap. You hear that someone is seeing a counselor and you...
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words to live by: jennifer lawrence.
Because she’s so hot right now. And because she’s legit. I’m a woman, that’s living in this world where everybody is telling everybody how they should look and what they should be eating and how...
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mom finds “diet list” in her 7-year-old daughter’s room.
You read that subject line right. According to this post on Mommyish, a mother found a heartbreaking “diet list”, complete with documentation of daily food intake and exercises, on the floor of her...
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naked and unashamed.
If you’ve been following my blog for any length of time, you might know that I was diagnosed with an eating disorder in 2007 and have since made it my mission to figure out how to love myself — inside...
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words to live by: demi lovato.
A couple years ago, while discussing popular music and culture, a girl in our youth group said something to my husband that, upon his retelling of it, left me dumbfounded. It was something along the...
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how to physically love your body even when you mentally can’t.
For those of you who don’t know, back in 2007, I was diagnosed with an ED-NOS, or eating disorder not otherwise specified. I was taken aback by the diagnosis, but before I could argue I was flung into...
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their first love.
A few weeks ago, my son walked in on me doing something he’d evidently never seen before. “Mama, are you trying to take your eyelashes off?” My mouth fell open and I broke my gaze from my bathroom...
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