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On Mental Health and Medication

On Mental Health and Medication

As May draws to a close, so does mental health awareness month. Mental health has always been an important issue to me, as I have always had friends and family that struggled with mental illnesses and addictions. This year, it became much more personal, as I finally admitted to myself and my doctor that I needed help with my own depression and anxiety. A new day has dawned in my life and I am…

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New Year, New Glue

New Year, New Glue

Content note: death of family member. My only post last year was a new year’s post. A friend that is one of the handful of people that subscribes to my blog asked recently when I’d start writing again. I wanted the answer to be right now. I will write right now. I am writing right now! The truth is that life got really hard for me last year. It still feels pretty hard, but I am on the mend. I…

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Revolutions Schmesolutions

I like to show up to parties late, which is why I am writing a New Year’s post 12 days into 2015. The truth is, I wasn’t sure if I was ready to recommit to this blogging endeavor. Last year was  a bit overwhelming in my personal life with family stuff, taking on more responsibility in the workplace, and doing intense personal work that was simultaneously healing me and breaking me.  Sometimes,…

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On depression and suicide...

On depression and suicide…

This week is Suicide Prevention and Awareness week and yesterday was World Suicide Prevention Day. I couldn’t bring myself to publish this last month when it was more relevant to the world, but having a cause to support while ruminating over my own stuff bolsters my confidence.

I have been toying with writing about my thoughts on Robin Williams’ tragic passing, but felt my opinion insignificant…

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Rock that body, Love!

Rock that body, Love!

Sweet swag for the stuffs I did to help.

Last weekend, I made the trek westward to Tucson, Arizona for the first annual Body Love Conference, or BLC. When I first learned of the event sometime last summer, it was a mere twinkle in The Militant Baker’s eye. I was immediately intrigued and wrote to Jes, The Militant Bakerherself. I offered my event planning skills to her mix and was thrilled when…

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Can I get a hell yes? 

Here’s to a week for the unconventional before and after photos, National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. For most of my life, I’ve been heavier, and consequently shamed and belittled for my weight.  When I started college, however, I weighed 103 pounds, was eating 400-600 calories a day, doing about 90 minutes of cardio daily, and most importantly, I was anorexic. I was 15 pounds underweight, but no one thought to say anything because they were too busy applauding me for my unnatural weight loss. This is me calling them out. This is my telling them they were wrong. This is me thanking my real life and tumblr friends for everything they have done to get me to the wonderful place I am today. So fuck you traditional pictures of “healthy”, I may be fat, but I beat my eating disorder. 

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Keep up the great work, Shaunta. I enjoy your writing. Don't feed the trolls. ;)

Fifty-one days ago, I came across a blog post that talked about BMR and TDEE and eating enough.

You’ve been dieting since you were 12 years old. The thought of leaving it behind is terrifying. You don’t really know anything else, dieting has become your normal, it is just The Way Things...

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Lessons I learned from the kitchen drawer

Compassion for others starts with ourselves.

Life lessons can turn up in the most unexpected…

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Weight, what?

On Friday, I wrote about how my body is a “fucking marvel of biology,” yet by Sunday I was having a breakdown about my own relationship with my body. Chatting with a close friend, I realized that I have a lot of attachment to the number on the scale, even…

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'Society' tells me I should be really worried about my weight

Trigger warning: negative self talk, triggering and restricting talk. There is also an f-bomb, for those that aren’t fond of cursing.

I started my day today with a hot shower in my cold bathroom. I noticed myself thinking about my weight, which I…

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Obligatory New Year’s post

As the masses line up for new gym memberships, sign up for diet food delivery systems, and stock up…

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So here’s the deal, my friend Bridget and I are starting a feminist collective blog in February.  It’s called Fab-Fem.  We want it to be about feminism and for teenagers, but still fun.  We need to collect a mass amount of posts before we open it so we never run out, so that’s where you come in!  We want anyone and everyone to be able to be a part of this, so we need you to submit posts to us.  The idea is that you can submit whenever you want without feeling intimidated or having to go through any sort of acception process if you don’t want to!  If you do want to be a regular contributer, all you have to do is add me on Facebook.  

We’ll take just about anything you can think of!!!

So here’s a list of ideas to get you ready for submitting:

Articles (We really need a lot of these!!!)

Art/Comics

Photoshoots

Videos of you ranting

Craft/Hair/Makeup/Nail/Anything tutorials

Movie/TV show/Makeup/Clothes/Anything Reviews

Playlists

Recipes

Your OOTD posts and Polyvore collages (We’re going to pick our favorites to post every week!)

Poems

If you’ve got more ideas, shoot them at us!  We probably won’t say no!

Contact me on my facebook if you have any questions/want to be a regular contributer!

Anything you submit will be greatly appreciated!  And don’t forget to follow!

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Dear Eve Ensler,

I want to start off by saying thank you. I appreciate the time you took to reach out to me, because I know you’re incredibly busy. I know there are much more important people in this world than myself, so I appreciate you engaging in dialogue with me and my colleague Kelleigh...

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To wed and be well-fed

Trigger warnings: Negative self/body talk, distorted body image, dieting , restricting

I had a body…

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A fat girl rants...

When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m not, I don’t. When I want chips or fried-something, I eat it. When…

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Name of the game: Body Shame

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How I learned to stop worrying and love my body...despite my lack of a "thigh-gap"

So – What’s my story, anyway?

Do I really love my body?

Let’s just say: I’m a work in progress, but…

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