Is Your Body Image Bad, Good or Kind?
When I was born, my body image was good. Or at least I think it was good, since I have no real recollection of having any body image at all…
Mentoring and Recovery
Archives for Month: May 2017
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Are You Getting Enough Overnight Therapy?
As I get older, I often joke that I am always just one nap away from my next nap. Only it’s not really a joke. Me-now honestly cannot work out…
White Hair? On Me?
Yesterday I made an amazing discovery. The night just prior I had noticed a grey hair or two making an appearance along my hair’s main part line. Don’t misunderstand – this…
Ruminations on Peanut Butter
Around the time I turned 11, I discovered that the easiest way to get all my other worries to leave me alone was to pick one worry, assign it the…
Learning to Burst Open Your Ideas
If you’ve been following along here for the last month or so, you’ve probably read about some pretty painful experiences. I guess I’m on a roll. The thing is, at age…
Recovering From Bullying, Part 2
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post I called “Recovering from Name Calling and Bullying.” In this post, I shared the heart-breaking experience of finding myself the target of adult bullies…
Letting People Tell Us Who They Are
Ever since I was little, I have wanted to see the best in people. For much of my early life, I wanted it so badly that I would take on…
Are You An Empath? (the superpower I would like to give up)
As a little girl, oh how I loved to read! I was especially fond of science fiction, since (according to the cover art, at least) everyone was always trim and good-looking…
Trying to Wrap My Mind Around Gender Fluidity
I hope it is not too un-PC to say this….that I am having to do some mental reorganizing and reconfiguring to comprehend multi-form gender (or non-gender) identity. Although I suspect…