This week marks two years since I was lying in a hospital bed with pelvic inflammatory disease after being sexually assaulted by a friend from overseas staying with me. He knew my history with childhood sexual abuse and yet he came into my home and within an hour had pinned me against a wall, … Read more
You don’t know my story… All you see, is the outer manifestation of the life I have lived.. You don’t know the pain, trauma, joys, successes that I have experienced in my life… You don’t know my hopes and dreams, you just look at my outer shell, and decide I am unworthy. Unworthy of your … Read more
This is me, six years ago today, and thanks to body dysmorphia, still felt like I weighed 120kg, and yet, I was 70kg…. I hated this picture because I felt like it showed my fat stomach still and was ashamed. At this point, I had been in recovery from bulimia for close to two years, … Read more
This is me…This is me, today, aged 45… This is me, in the body that my soul chose before I was even conceived, to inhabit, for this journey through life.. My soul chose this body, to heal.. My soul chose this beautiful body to learn from truly painful lessons… This body has been through a … Read more
I was listening to a podcast this morning about body image, emotional eating, binge eating, and it was between two other women that I truly respect in the same field, and they were talking about the above line, “How do you love your body, as it is, in a fat phobic world?” To be honest, … Read more
