February 2012
154 posts
Why You’re Beautiful
You’re beautiful because you believe in things. Even when it’s easier to be cynical, skeptical, hyper-rational, you keep believing because you know believing in things is what makes them real. You’re beautiful for that reason, because you can do something lots of people can’t. I admire you and sometimes I’m jealous.
This mindset is comforting to me in a way...
I don’t want to believe that I should be concerned with being beautiful, I want to believe that I can be comfortable with myself even though I’m also the kind of person who follows everything that comes out of my mouth by cringing and questioning my own mortality. Yes, I get a little sad when I remember I’m too neurotic and too sarcastic, and that I choose to be loud or quiet at all the wrong...
llamatruth asked: When I was sick with my ED pro-ana... etc websites really encouraged me to stay sick. Trading tips about weight loss and posting goal weights and weight loss stats made me feel justified in continuing to lose although I was underweight, after-all I wasn't as small as person x. I don't in anyway think pro-ana sites cause eating disorders. But I do think there is a difference between...
Tumblr Is Wrong For Censoring Eating Disorder...
Tumblr is shutting down blogs that promote self-harm. This means pro-Anorexia, pro-Bulimia, and pro-EDNOS blogs are dunzo.
I have to believe this is because of moral panic rather than genuine concern for the people these blogs harm. The misconception is that these communities are about encouraging people to have eating disorders, giving tips and causing existing eating disorders to worsen. In...
Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
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One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
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Angelina Jolie Looked Skinny At Oscars; Saying...
Angelina Jolie looked extremely thin on the red carpet last night, and headlines about her “look” at the Oscars are, invariably, followed by comment sections filled with remarks about her weight. One of the most common refrains is some variation on the imperative to “eat a cheeseburger,” often paired with musings about her anorexia. But in honor of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, I think we...
Ladies, here’s my plea: We can’t build each other...
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Why You’re Beautiful
You’re beautiful because you’re brave. You know there’s more to life than measuring how long you have — you came face to face with your own mortality and turned to look the other way.
“For some reason, the real enemies weren’t enough. I had to be even meaner to...”
– Stacy Pershall, Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl (via ambivalentmusings)
Why You’re Beautiful
You’re beautiful because you take pride in ironically showcasing that you’re not. You laugh at the silly standards of conventional beauty and elevate armpit hair, blue-veined pallor and Chucks held together by luck alone to a whole new level. You will never be the one to drop six grand on an anti-aging cream made from red algae and gorilla spit because when you’re eighty, you will be proud of the...
“IT’S MY CHOICE”
Teens spend an average of 53 hours per week consuming various media. Unsurprisingly, this can affect their health and self-esteem. A 2011 study conducted by researchers from the University of Haifa in Israel found that the more time teenage girls spend on social-networking sites, the more prone they are to negative body image and eating disorders.
Many thinspo...
““Thirteen years ago, when I was 22-years-old, if I wasn’t sleeping,...”
– Jenni Schaefer, Author of Life Without Ed
It will always be harder to get to be someone who...
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has...”
– -H. Jackson Brown, Jr
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What would happen if we stopped being so...
We could spend more quality time with our families. Or we could change careers, go speed dating, and even take trapeze lessons.
We could experience more joy.
Why You’re Beautiful
You’re beautiful because you just don’t give a damn. You don’t need everyone to like you, agree with you or approve of you to feel good about yourself. You know that “good enough” is subjective, and that more often than not the subject doesn’t really matter anyway. I know you’ll never wake up suddenly 45 and nowhere, half your time and potential wasted on following someone else’s idiot advice....
Why You’re Beautiful
You’re beautiful because you take risks. You substituted “who cares” for “what if” and stopped talking into your beer about how you were going to do it and actually did it. You weren’t afraid to take a crazy stupid chance on your crazy stupid dreams, kind of like that chick in Eat Pray Love except you didn’t have to become an ashram-cleaning cliché to find yourself and didn’t leave me with...
Why You’re Beautiful
You’re beautiful because you’re stronger than anyone thought. I didn’t think you were at first. You’re happy and healthy now. I couldn’t be prouder of you.
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And the fact is, you are not ruined. You are not...
I actually felt guilty about this, when I realized it was happening to me—I thought there was some rule that meant I would only ever get to be bravely suffering and sort of all right, and that if I were actually happy, it would mean that I had betrayed myself and my experience. But this is not a 19th-century novel about a fallen woman; this is your actual life. No rule or event can forbid you from...
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: Do You...
This concept is the theme of the upcoming National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which will be held Feb. 26 to March 3, according to a NEDA press release. The theme, “Everybody Knows Somebody,” suggests that while eating disorders are more in the open now and there is more awareness, there is still progress to be made.
“I do believe that there is less of a stigma to having an eating disorder...
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Anonymous asked: Is there a group of people running this or just one person? What is/are your names?
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself -Thich Nhat Hanh
Heres a thought.... love yourself for who you are...
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