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Owning your body

May 28, 2013

As I continue to struggle with self-acceptance (self-love and similarly wanky notions – joking… though I do concede that it’s a bit trendy to talk about self-acceptance at the moment!) there’s one aspect that alludes me. My not-dieting approach and increased happiness with my life means my ‘self-loathing’ is diminishing and with that my anger [...]

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I heart my body. Mostly

October 25, 2012

I treat my body badly. I have little respect for it and regularly confess to this. I recently wrote about the fact that I ‘blame’ my body because it doesn’t look or act in the way I want it to. Although I no longer strive for perfection (when it comes to my body, anyway), I [...]

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Fat: and MY issue of femininity?

July 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true. I arranged to catch up with an old friend today and after seeing her and while out and about, I drove into my workplace to go to my fave gym class. And it was perfect for many reasons – empowering music and dancing, not to mention our fabulous instructor. I walked out [...]

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Feeling better now (part 2)

June 15, 2012

Yesterday I started on blogger and coach Christie Inge’s ’10 steps to feeling better now’ exercise in the hope that I would… well you know… feel better now, rather than waiting until I achieve some magic weight or similar. Don’t worry… of course I am writing with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek (and [...]

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Wallowing in blahness

June 11, 2012

Warning: this post may contain negativity, self-loathing and other depressing stuff. I do seriously apologise in advance for today’s post. I was undecided about whether to go ahead and publish it, or just leave it fester with the many other drafts in my blog cellar. I’ve tried hard in recent times not to be [...]

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Embracing vs celebrating

May 27, 2012

Today’s post has changed its tone several times. What what you’re about to read is actually quite different to the original draft. I’ve been feeling kind of torn you see…. in a overanalysing, ‘am I a bad person?’ kind of way! I recently started following an online magazine on Facebook and Twitter. Plus Model Magazine [...]