Amanda Bynes tweeted something interesting. I know, I never thought I’d write those words either. And yet, in the midst of a whole bunch of crazy in which she literally told rapper Drake to “murder” her ladybits (what does that even mean?!) she made a rather astute observation: ”I have an eating disorder so I [...]
Being sick is one of the circumstances in which the higher functions of my mind start to go dormant. I often feel like I can’t write about anything other than being sick, or some peripherally related topic. My whole human experience sinks to the low end of something — some kind of spectrum. As it [...]
received an email from a reader, whom I will call Grace, that I really think warrants a longer and more thoughtful response from me, and when I say longer, I mean longer, so grab a coffee. Please do stick around, though, because you might be able to help us out at the end. This particular [...]
Most of us have probably socialized with a couple in which at least one partner verbally abused the other. I can recall a husband calling his wife “a stupid idiot” in my presence. On another occasion a woman referred to her husband as a less than masculine “big p….” These couples are in your face [...]
Dove released a new video promoting its carefully constructed brand of “real beauty” self-esteem boosting. The concept is clever. A series of women describe themselves to a forensic sketch artist behind a curtain. Afterward, new friends describe these same women to the same guy and he draws a new picture. Inevitably, the sketches based on [...]
“When You Hit Rock Bottom, There’s Only One Way Left to Go” I am always shocked to see the effect that self-esteem has on a person. While it is by far not exclusively a female problem, I notice a drastic change when I compare conversations that I have with men to those that I have [...]
Recently, there has been a media blitz of marketing campaigns speaking about raising women and girls’ self-esteem with no shortage of talk aimed at re-defining society’s perception of beauty. What started out as a movement that showed great promise for bringing about healthier mind sets for women was nothing more than sleek new marketing campaigns [...]
If we are untidy and unorganized in our lives then we are making an environment of negativity, this in turn will bring about feelings of low self-worth and low self-esteem which will block our success in life and create a situation in which we will feel a lack of choice in what we do. It [...]
We’ve all been stuck in a dating rut from time to time in our lives. Dating isn’t easy and making a commitment to a guy you date is even harder. One of the most important things you can do to mend a bruised dating life is to change the way you think. It’s easier said [...]
My life story, I was born in 1992 in april, and came into a family which had already two children and a mother and a father, though it should’ve been solving family, it was not, my mother used her age against my father so he would marry her, though I don’t remember anything before the [...]
