Self-Love + The Reality of Settling, Stagnation, or Giving Up

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been getting this message loud and clear: pare down and get to the technical, nitty gritty, applicable in REAL LIFE implications of self-love. I’ve had a lot of people asking me for clarity around this issue: If I love myself, utterly and unconditionally, am I giving up? Does … Read more

Feeling Resistance + (Sometimes) Doing it Anyway

You know what you’re supposed to do. We all do. Each and every one of us is packed to the gills with helpful advice. Why is it that we just can’t sink our teeth in to these habits or find any headway in cultivating our lives, the way we say that we want to? There … Read more

How to Celebrate Who You Already Are

How often have you had this thought: I will be worth celebrating, when… For the majority of my life, celebration was riddled with qualifiers. I believed firmly that I would only be worthy all of the revelry and fun that I could imagine for myself if, and only if, I met my levels of expectation. … Read more

Why I Write

In 2009, I wrote a post about why I started this website. In that post, I wrote: This writing represents my best potential. I wrote about the person that I was in 2008 when I began Medicinal Marzipan, how the journey transformed my life – providing me with a home for my belief and fears, and … Read more