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I Can’t Find The Word For This Type Of ‘-ism’ Or ‘-ist’

And it’s not from a lack of trying, the word simply doesn’t exist. Maybe there’s been no need for it, a word to describe a concept that is imbedded in societies around the world. Maybe it simply hasn’t risen to the level where society will take notice. Except, I believe, it has.

Let’s look at [...]

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week – I’m One of the Disorderly

I have body image issues. My rather large gut shames me almost everyday.

It dictates how I dress, what I eat, makes me want to stay in and isolate myself so not to feel embarrassed.

After going through therapy for depression, I seem to have found another layer of issues that need  addressing. It greatly [...]

The Law of Unintended Consequences

As a firm believer in the Law of Unintended Consequences (LoUC), it immediately came to mind when I read a post by Dan Diamond over at the Health Care Blog, About Time? Smokers Face Tough New Rules Under Obamacare which details a little known provision of the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aka [...]

What I’ve Learned So Far

It’s been a while since I posted, but I wanted to finish up my discussion of the last few years with a summary of what I’ve learned (sometimes I think stumbled into is a better description).

Learning that I was not alone in diabetes what probably the most profound, and yet damaging, thing. Recognizing that [...]

And Then It Became So Hard

** You’ll want to read That Fateful Saturday and It Would Be So Easy first, otherwise this might not make much sense

So I Chose.

I was still terribly depressed, but no longer at rock bottom.  I was able to see that if I wanted things to get better, I was going to have to [...]