I have more stuff bouncing around in my brain than I can cram into one post, so I’ll probably hit the high points here and then break them out into other posts over the next few days.
On “dieting” and Health At Every Size:
I’ve been thinking that ANY attempt to lose weight can’t possibly be HAES. [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Too Many Marbles
Posted in Body Image, Cognitive Dissonance, Eating Disorders, Emotional health, Mental health on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hide and Seek
Posted in Emotional health, Mental health on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been adjusting various things in my life lately, and over the last week or so I have realized how much I hide from life. I hide from moving forward, I hide from trying new things, I hide from so many things, and what I do to hide varies depending on what else I’m doing [...]
Eating Disorders, Religion and Spirituality
Posted in Eating Disorders, Emotional health, Mental health, Spirituality on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, yesterday I wrote a post inspired by Rachel’s post and the comments to it, but frankly when I was all done with my post, it was just really annoying navel-gazing. And I figured if *I* thought that, I probably didn’t want to publish it! Ha! So go read Rachel’s post and the comments. It [...]
Diets, Disorders and Addictions
Posted in Cognitive Dissonance, Emotional health, Mental health, My hate/love/hate relationship with Weight Watchers on May 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Disclaimer: this pretty much came out of my head as-is. I’ve been trying to put it into a more coherent format, but it hasn’t worked thus far. So please excuse the utter lack of smooth transitions in this post.
I’ve been reading a lot of stuff in the Fatosphere recently about dieters and whether or not someone [...]
Cognitive dissonance, part 3 – or maybe not
Posted in Body Image, Cognitive Dissonance, Emotional health, Mental health on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love Carolyn Myss. No, really. I own most of her books and most of her CD lectures. I like that she holds a lot of the same “energy-woo-woo” beliefs that I do (what? I can call a spade a spade) but that she’s grounded and even a little cynical. I think it makes her [...]
When do you become responsible?
Posted in Emotional health, Mental health, Self-Esteem on May 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
So there was a major debacle in one of the online communities that I like to lurk in. Basically my perception of what happened was that one person was singled out as making others uncomfortable. That in itself is nothing notable (as far as I can tell, it happens fairly regularly in the blogosphere – geez, [...]

