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How to Love Your Body Even Though Change is Slow

Topic / The Body Image Project

Progress might not be what you think it is.

In our heads we have a WAY things are supposed to go. I do, anyways. It’s what I do. I have plans, and ideas, and dreams. And MORE plans. I have plans that are stuck so far down inside my brain folds that I don’t even know they’re there until they don’t happen, and then I get angry, and I usually don’t know why. (Ask The Mister, he has to put up with my didn’t-actually-make-a-plan-that-fell-through temper tantrums OFTEN.)

These progress pictures are kind of like THAT.
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Aug

The Power of Choice – Never Be Helpless Again

Topic / mental health

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there’s one utterance that boils my blood faster than anything else on the planet.

“I don’t have a choice.”

My ears are steamy, hot, pressure-gauge red even as I type that.

I really do hate that sentence. And I’m a very tolerant and patient person that doesn’t “hate.” Very rarely do I even use that word, but I use it now. I HATE THAT SENTENCE, and I. HATE. every idea it represents.
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