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Self Love Hack #5: Spend time with your reflection
When you think about yourself in your mind’s eye, what do you see? I don’t know if this is normal, but I never seem to have an accurate image of myself in my mind. Between pictures from the past and … Continue reading
Self love hack #2: believe the people you trust
I’ve decided to dedicate the rest of August to some of the *hacks* that helped me develop self love. They are not in any particular order and certainly didn’t all start at one time with the purpose of learning to … Continue reading
Body Shaming and how I finally reached my breaking point
Back in October, I wrote a post about the stigma associated with being fat and my mission to try caring less about what other people think and more about what *I* think (link to that post here). I’ve come a long … Continue reading
Scarcity and the unintended consequences of “not enough”
My family was a long way from wealthy, but in the grand scheme of things, and in comparison to people who have it much worse, our basic needs were generally met. We always had a home, clothes, food (well, the food was … Continue reading
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Out of the darkness, light and gratitude.
This winter was tough for me. I’ll tell you all about that a little later, but for now I just wanted to get a quick post up to let you know that I’m back! I am better. The only way … Continue reading
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Tagged Ane Brun, community, depression, happiness, recovery, self acceptance, support, True Colors
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Be the change
I vaguely remember a discussion in what must have been an English Literature or Comp class, about physically abused kids and their options growing up. Most of us assumed that when abused children grow up, they become the opposite of … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, Eating disorder, healing, self acceptance, self esteem
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First, Love YourSELF
When you live with an eating disorder (also if you are morbidly obese for any other reason), a doctor will inevitably tell you at one time or another that you MUST change, or you WILL die. For some people that … Continue reading
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