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Tag Archives: self love

Dec202017Dec 20 2017

True Confession: I’m Not Attracted to My Husband

by Jane Doe, in category Health | Sexuality
I'm not attracted to my husband

True Confession: I’m Not Attracted to My Husband is written by an author who wishes to remain anonymous. I first experienced a loss of sexual desire several years ago, just after I turned 40. For a long time, I thought it was me. I thought maybe it was my age. After reading every book and… Read More

Dec152017Dec 15 2017

5 Ways to Heal from a Relationship that Stole Your Soul

by Lien Potgieter, in category Heart | Love & Romance
heal from a relationship that stole your soul

A toxic relationship can destroy your self-esteem, your self-confidence, and ultimately steal your soul. Here are 5 ways to heal after a bad breakup.

Oct72015Jan 14 2016

The Girl and the Unicorn

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

The girl had wished for a unicorn her whole life. She had seen the beautiful creatures in magazines with the most successful recording artists, models and actresses and she knew she was just the kind of person who could have one for herself. She also knew boys adored girls with unicorns and with one, she would… Read More

Oct12015Jan 14 2016

Eating Disorder Recovery • Six Years of Sobriety + Seven Recovery Tips

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

On a cold September morning in 2009, I sat in the bottom of the shower sobbing so hard I was almost sick. I wasn’t upset because someone had died, or was ill, or had been hurt in any way, I was crying because I had binged the night before and my morning weigh-in had shown the ugly… Read More

Aug272015Sep 2 2015

Why your self-love efforts aren’t working

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

After I finished writing yesterday’s post on the three types of love strategies between a couple, it occurred to me that the same principles apply to self-love. If you know how you receive love from others, you know how to receive it from yourself Many people’s self-love efforts aren’t making any difference because people are following advice based… Read More

May142015Jun 18 2015

The Silent Treatment • being ignored or being spared?

by KatieP, in category Head | Mindfulness

Every few days I scour the pages of seek.com looking for a job. It is a bit like looking for a date on RSVP. I filter out the ones that are too far away, too boring and too conservative. My days of wearing a pencil skirt and blazer are over. But unlike internet dating where… Read More

Apr192015Apr 19 2015

The Practice of Self Love • #1000speak

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

Art is a practice, medicine is a practice, and architecture is a practice. Photography, painting, meditation, dance, writing, and yoga is a practice. What makes these particular things a practice? A practice is something that has an intrinsic (internal) motivation to achieve excellence both for oneself and for the good of the community. It brings to mind such… Read More

Apr72015Jan 18 2016

F is for Fat

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

When I decided to enter a body-building competition in my forties, there was something the trainers and seasoned competitors forgot to tell me. They forgot to warn me that once you’ve experienced being so thin that your tailbone digs into the chair, any weight higher than that will feel fat. So from my point of view, I spend… Read More

Oct202014Nov 4 2014

The Self Portrait • a demonstration of self-acceptance

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
the self portrait • a demonstration of self acceptance

What if taking a self-portrait helped me accept who I am and what I look like?
The idea seemed feasible. Totally feasible but completely scary.

Jul172014Nov 2 2017

[Guest Post] You Should Lose Some Weight

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
you should lose some weight • katerina edwards

Please make welcome the lovely Katerina Edwards who is guest posting today. The moment I take off my clothes, the feelings of self-worthlessness creep in. “I think you should lose some weight,” the massage therapist murmurs. Her words hit me right in my fleshy, untoned, cortisol-bellied stomach, right in the most sensitive, guarded and protected part of… Read More

Apr12014Feb 14 2016

When do you stop being sexy?

by KatieP, in category Health | Sexuality
When do you stop being sexy? • Does beauty have a use-by date? • from head-heart-health.com

A photographic exhibition by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf called Mature shows a series of older women in classic pin-up poses. These photos have stirred up the full range of positive and negative emotions in both men and women. For me, as maturity approaches at a rapid rate, I worry that I’ll reach the point where I’m no longer… Read More

Sep192013Mar 18 2016

Dear Body

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
Dear Body - positive body image

There is no instruction manual for inhabiting you, no shortcut, no finished product I can emulate. All I have is an organic mess that requires embodiment and a relationship.

Apr192013Mar 18 2016

Difficult Love

by KatieP, in category Heart | Love & Romance
Difficult love reminds us that some things are worth fighting for.

Love is difficult when we first fall in love– when we don’t know what the future might hold — and it is the most exciting. Difficult love reminds us that some things are worth fighting for. And it makes us appreciate the easier times because they are fleeting.

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