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Body Shaming: Shame On Us

February 29, 2016February 25, 2016 — Katy Flint7 Comments

Sara of All In An Iowa Mom’s Day shared a story on her Facebook page the other day about a teenage girl and her mother at a department store and a clerk who said that the teen age girl needed Spanx. The discussion that followed in the comments got me thinking about body shaming and how out of control it is. Some of the comments that followed the story made me furious! The majority of women on this post were incredibly supportive of course and saying that the clerk was out of line, but there were others that were insinuating that the girl would look better if she was wearing spanx underneath. I was flabbergasted!

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Anorexia & How It Rules my Life, Part 2

February 15, 2015 — Katy Flint4 Comments

This is Part 2 in a series that I’ve decided to publish about my struggles with Anorexia and how it affects me every single day. You can find Part 1 HERE.

8 1/2 years ago I moved back to my hometown. I was newly single, had no friends around me, no job, and really wasn’t sure where my life was going. I felt it all starting again and yet the “sick” part of me didn’t care. I was very depressed and just wanted to feel better. I wanted to feel wanted again (by someone else). The last several months of my relationship hadn’t been happy (even though they should have been since I was planning my wedding) and I had a lot of recovering to do not only from ending my relationship, but also the psychological damages that had been done the 6 months prior to that. My way of dealing with it was to walk and eventually start running and not eating. I was going to show the world that I was ok by having an amazing body! (Or at least that is the lie I was telling myself, which in fact I know now was giving the opposite message!) Over the next year or two I dropped a lot of weight and got down to my smallest size ever (in my adult life). I felt great on the outside, but not on the inside.

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