A tale of a life reshaped
THINKING ABOUT FAT DISCRIMINATION POST #5 I was one of the many, many people who watched The Secret and had a personal epiphany. In case you don’t know about The Secret, it’s a movie about the Law of Attraction popular in 2007 – 2008. The movie is an introduction to the science of thought. For [...]
I’m really enjoying NaBloPoMo; it’s a great opportunity for me to really explore a subject that’s been going around and around in my head lately. EMBRACING FAT ACCEPTANCE POST #4 One of the things that I really wanted to achieve with this series of posts is an examination of what I’ve been thinking and feeling [...]
I’m not altogether sure why but I decided to get involved in NaBloPoMo, which is National Blog Posting Month on Blog Her. The goal is to write a post a day for the month of July. I’ve been slack with writing of late, which, honestly, is a result of the spectacular failure of my last [...]
Sometimes I get so bogged down in what I have to do that I just can’t seem to cope. It’s such a pervasive feeling. It’s failure. I’m a person with big dreams. I always have had big dreams. Sadly I’ve never really been able to turn those dreams into reality. I keep trying though. And [...]
I read a lot about body size and, now, body acceptance. I’m a plus size woman and feel the pressure of public ‘disapproval’ of my size. I used to take it all very personally and I lived my fatness, hiding myself away so as not to offend anyone. Recently I’ve hooked into the fatosphere and [...]
POST #8 BODY ACCEPTANCE V FAT ACCEPTANCE When I first started this journey I was confused about clothes. I wanted to look good and, I’d lost some weight, so I thought I’d be able to find out about clothes whilst I continued loosing weight and be ideally in a position to get that fabulous wardrobe [...]
I’m not altogether sure why but I decided to get involved in NaBloPoMo, which is National Blog Posting Month on Blog Her. The goal is to write a post a day for the month of July. I’ve been slack with writing of late, which, honestly, is a result of the spectacular failure of my last [...]
I was reading the other day a post about the idiocy of taking children away from their parents because they’re fat. The post was written from the point of view of a social worker and noting how much difficulty that would cause, particularly in the face of the already overworked system that’s having trouble coping [...]
