Loving Your Body: Tips for the Ongoing Process of Body Positivity - The Pulp Zine My whole life I have been fat. I remember realizing it in 4th grade (or around age 10) when I looked at my best friend at the time and at my fellow classmates. My cheeks were big, I had a little belly and I just felt different. As a teenager, not only did I struggle with mental health issues, but also with self-hatred. I had bad eating habits and was in a bad mental state about my body, doing things like popping diet pills and other forms of self harm. I’m older now and I’d like to think I’m somewhat wiser. On Tumblr, a lot of people come to me to ask about how I learned to love my body and how I seem so confident. For me, reclaiming the word fat has been immensely helpful. Spend time with yourself naked just around the house or in your room. When it all really comes down to it, after years of hating myself, I realized it’s not worth my time to spend it being negative. To end it all, this is a video I found really important and helpful and inspiring:
Here Is Why Some Indigenous Cultures Have No Back Pain Back pain is one of the most common health issues in the United States and worldwide. In fact, one-half of working Americans experience back pain symptoms each year while one-third of Americans older than mid-50s suffer from chronic pain in their neck or back. Looking at these statistics, it is hard to believe that back pain is literally nonexistent in some indigenous cultures and their spine discs show almost no signs of degeneration even in older ages. Esther Gokhale, an acupuncturist in Palo Alto, California, may have found the reason of this miraculous spine health of indigenous people. Having struggled with severe back pain for two decades, she got frustrated with Western medicine and decided to search for alternative solutions. She thought: “Go to populations where they don’t have these huge problems and see what they’re doing.” So, Gokhale traveled to the most remote corners of the Earth to study cultures with the lowest rates of back pain and came to some interesting conclusions.
36 questions to get to know yourself better - imperfections and all. 36 questions to get to know yourself better Earlier this year The New York Times published a list of 36 questions written by psychologist Arthur Aron that new couples or acquaintances can ask each other if they want to fast-track their relationship (or break up, depending on what’s revealed). We wanted to create a similar questionnaire but have the focus be on self-discovery, so we turned to two psychologists who specialize in studying the self: Gary Lewandowski, Ph.D., a professor at Monmouth University in New Jersey, and Brent Mattingly, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. They created the questions based on psychological theories and research. READ MORE: How to fall in love with anyone (in 36 questions) Part 1: Your essentials Part 1: Your essentials: Who are you today? READ MORE: Why motherhood finally made me embrace the selfie Part 1: Your essentials #1 #1: List five adjectives or traits that describe you. READ MORE: How one woman proposed to herself
What Sleeping In On The Weekends Could Be Doing To Your Body The weekend is now within reach. You can almost hear the silence of your alarm. You can almost feel the warmth of your covers at noon. Well, to all of you sleeping-in lovers, we've got some bad news: According to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, drastic changes to your sleep cycle may be increasing your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Researchers examined sleep patterns and cardiometabolic risk in a group of 447 men and women between the ages of 30 and 54 who worked at least 25 hours a week outside the home. The participants who showed a greater difference in their sleep schedules on work days compared to days off were more likely to have a larger waist circumference, higher body mass index, higher fasting insulin levels and poorer cholesterol profiles. "Social jetlag refers to the mismatch between an individual's biological circadian rhythm and their socially-imposed sleep schedules," explained Dr. Great.
23 Ways To Treat Yo' Self Without Buying Or Eating Anything - Yes and Yes Here are some ‘treats’ that I regularly give myself because I ‘deserve’ them: * An entire block of Parmesan. Not on something, mind you. Just the cheese. Just the brick. I just hold it in my hand and take bites of it like an apple. * Piles of $5 lady magazines * Not brushing my teeth before bed (??!!??) In case you’re keeping track, exactly zero of those things are good for me. But here I sit, ‘rewarding’ myself with things that – if I’m not careful – will give me a stomachache, make me feel less-than, and give me cavities. Ridiculous, right? I am literally engaging in ‘reward’ behavior that will make me feel worse in the long run! Stop it, self. I want better for myself. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. A few of my favorite people-watching places: the airport, any public transportation hub, any downtown area during lunch hour or after work, flea markets, farmers’ markets, anywhere near a stadium on a big game day. 20. 21. 22. 23. P.S.
Quels sont les effets de la cigarette sur votre beauté ? On le sait, fumer n'est pas bon pour la santé... Mais vous allez voir que cela a de nombreuses conséquences sur la peau également. Pour votre santé, il est conseillé d'arrêter de fumer. Mais cela est aussi très utile si vous voulez préserver la beauté de votre peau. En effet, la cigarette est responsable de plusieurs soucis. La cigarette rend le teint terne Comme elle réduit le flux sanguin, votre peau est moins oxygénée et cicatrise moins bien. La cigarette provoque des rides Comme votre peau est moins bien protégée, elle est plus exposée au vieillissement prématuré. Vous êtes déjà abonné ?
Imagining your future projects is holding you back. Do you have a big creative project in store? Do you lie awake sometimes, thinking about what might go into it, what the characters or environment might look like, how it will touch the audience in a whole new way? Do you imagine what it will feel like to have this project under your belt, and what kind of effect it will have on your life? Let me tell you about Forest Lords. Forest Lords is a series of ten fantasy novels, each a 1000-page brick, about the epic adventures of Greenleaf Barksley, elf proletarian, and his journeys to attain the Golden Leaf and save his homeland from the scourge of the Curse of the Titaness Denox. The thing is, none of this series exists—not even Forest Lords Volume One: The Elven Soul. But there is no book. *(As a matter of actual fact, there are no binders either. I got this term from Kazu Kibuishi when I interviewed him for Out on the Wire episode 7: Dark Forest. I try not to to look at what I’m going to do as this amazing great grand thing. If… Success!
The forgotten art of untucking the tail The forgotten art of untucking the tail A tiny detail we’ve lost since the hunter-gatherer times and how to fix it I’ve been spending most of my time lately learning about biomechanics, healthy alignment and how movement affects our bodies in relation to gravity. The research from the last couple of years shows that the way we move affect us not only mechanically, as it was previously thought, but also causing biochemical changes on cellular level, changing us from inside out. This process of the body adapting to and being shaped by movement is called mechanotransduction. We seem to be living in the world that encourages sitting with the tail tucked under. There is a well spread myth in our society that pelvic floor issues are a normal consequence of pregnancy and birth, or ageing for men. Did you know that the anatomic function of our reminiscent of a tail is, amongst others, to control opening and closing of the pelvic outlet. Tight muscle does NOT equal a strong muscle.
The Creative Force Behind the Land of Nod Photo by Christopher Sturman A 17-year veteran of the retail world, Michelle Kohanzo started at the Land of Nod as a customer-service representative. She now heads the children’s-decor company, overseeing operations, product development, and partnerships with other retailers and more than 200 independent artists. Q. Where did your artsiness come from?A. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. How I Stopped Binge Eating & Began A Healthy Relationship With Food For years, I struggled with an unhealthy relationship with food that bounced between two extremes: either I was “being good” and following strict, self-imposed rules about what I could and couldn’t eat, or I was “being bad” and secretly binging on huge amounts of unhealthy food. After every binge, I promised myself that this was the last time. Tomorrow, I’d start anew with a rigorous workout and a super-healthy breakfast. Sound familiar? 1. I didn’t realize it at the time, but now I know that my struggle with food wasn’t really about food. Once I realized that I was worthy, no matter what — even after I’d eaten a whole package of cookies and half a gallon of ice cream — then I was able to create space for self-compassion. 2. For the more than 10 years that I struggled with food, I spent immense amounts of energy thinking about what I “should” eat versus what I really wanted to eat. 3. Food can be a very effective numbing mechanism. The three above concepts are simple, but not easy.
to-anyone-who-thinks-theyre-falling-behind_b_9190758 You don’t need more motivation. You don’t need to be inspired to action. You don’t need to read any more lists and posts about how you’re not doing enough. We act as if we can read enough articles and enough little Pinterest quotes and suddenly the little switch in our brain will put us into action. And what I think we all need more than anything is this: permission to be wherever the fuck we are when we’re there. You’re not a robot. You don’t get to control everything. “If it’s not the time, it’s just not the fucking time. Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven’t met the inspiration for your main character yet. We all know this: Our experience cannot always be manipulated. You don’t get to game the system of your life. Yet, we don’t act in a way that supports this lifestyle. Timing is the one thing that we often forget to surrender to. Things are dark until they’re not. You don’t need more motivation or inspiration to create the life you want.