Body Love

My favorite and best

February 25, 2013

    Hi. So you’re here, welcome. Maybe you’re new here or maybe you’re an old time reader.  Have a look around. Get comfy. Why not check out some of my favorite and best posts? Maybe you want to know a bit about  Unschooling/Natural learning? Try Unschooling 101 Not Back to School Am I an [...]

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You’ve come a long way, Fatty

February 22, 2013

    In the last couple of years my relationship with my body changed. I used to feel embarrassed and ashamed about the size of my body. I felt like I was less worthy than those who were thin and I felt that the disgust aimed at my fat was valid. I felt guilt for eating foods [...]

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I heart my body. I really do.

October 25, 2012

It’s been a year since I paraded around the internet in my undies and it’s that time of year again. I’m back baby!   Th road to really and truly hearting my body has been long and I’m not sure there will ever be a time when I feel the love 100% all of the time. [...]

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We’re on the same side

July 24, 2012

It’s OK. Your body is different to mine. Your history, your story and your fears and hopes are not the same. We like different things.   It’s OK to never, ever in a million years want to birth your baby at home. It’s OK to have a birth plan that says “drugs please, immediately”. It’s [...]

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Alcohol, it’s time we saw other people for a while

July 11, 2012

Me, Kristy and Kate inside the Kleenex Mums photobooth at Digital Parents Conference this year. Clearly post 1000 wines.   Anyone who knows me in real life knows that I like a drink. Especially ones of the alcoholic variety. I’m more of a “10 beers on a Saturday” than a sensible “glass of wine with dinner” [...]

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The things I want my daughters to know

May 8, 2012

  “Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone out to be.”- Clementine Paddleford   I had to go and buy some new clothes for the kiddos the other day. Just filling in some gaps, new leggings, layering long sleeves and stuff. Tannah now fits into a size 7, which is in the pre teen department of [...]

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Fat

March 23, 2012

I’m fat. It might make some people uncomfortable to hear a woman describe herself like that because the word “fat” is usually a put down. Fat, when used as an adjective describing a person, has become synonymous with some really negative words like-lazy, ugly, smelly, stupid and disorganized. It is often assumed that fat people [...]

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I heart my body

March 23, 2012

I’ve seen some of my fave bloggers stripping down for the I Heart My Body campaign over at We Heart Life and I knew I had to join in. Until recently I pretty much hated my body. I was always too fat, too short and too freckly. I have dieted and gotten into a more [...]

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