What are you holding?

What are you holding?

  “We hold so very much, don’t we?  So very much.”   Tears.   I’ve said this more than once to a woman new in her pregnancy.  There is no glow yet, there is no round belly, just the constant green malaise of morning sickness, and...
1000 Tiny Steps Home

1000 Tiny Steps Home

  Heart. Beat.   Heart. Beat.   Heart. Beat. Heart. Beat. Heart. Beat. Heart. Beat. Heart. Beat. Heart. Beat. Heart. Beat.   heartbeatheartbeatheartbeatheartheartheartheartbeatbeatbeatbeatheartbeatheartbeatheart   Two weeks ago, my heart...
We start here, with us

We start here, with us

  The following is an excerpt from the first section of my book, Project Body Love: my quest to love my body and the surprising truth I found instead   I wrote this book not as an icon in the body positivity movement or as a fat activist with thousands of...
Pretty words and a dirty sweatshirt

Pretty words and a dirty sweatshirt

  “I’m scared everyone is going to find out that I’m just a person in a dirty sweatshirt who writes better than she talks and might just seem a little underwhelming in person.”   Sometimes, when I write in my journal for long enough,...