Eating Disorders & Body Image

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (411+ words) One day, without noticing,you become the woman your younger self would have run to. Not because the world became gentler,but because you learned how to survive its sharp edges. There was a little girl oncewho believed safety lived…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (405+ words) In this evocative essay, Trijita traces the moments that render the body a living, sensing presence, inhabiting the uncertain space where the interpersonal and the personal converge. Through reflections on food, hunger, absence, and desire, she explores how relationships are…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1110+ words) There is a particular kind of pressure that can make an ordinary life feel inadequate. You see someone’s announcement online. A milestone you’ve been waiting for yourself. And then, perhaps quietly, you compare. You look at your own life and…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (583+ words) ​Rejection is an experience few of us actively plan for, yet virtually all of us encounter at various stages of life. A job application receives a polite refusal letter. Someone we hoped would choose us chooses someone else. A long-standing…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1515+ words) I AM My Higher Self… Something struck me just this morning. I suppose if I was on an episode of The Simpsons I’d slap my own forehead and say ‘d’oh’. Or whatever it was the Homer used to do … I…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (178+ words) We asked four queer people, from four different decades of life What Is Your Body to You? Samson, 20’s. Gay, Trans guy, doctor of dirty drawingsAde, 30’s Gay, feeling like my life just startedBillie, 40’s Gay, neuroatypical, living with chronic…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (34+ words) Yay Or Nay On Serialization Some people would say that I’m a jack-of-all-trades. Other people would claim that I’m just distracted. I like to think …...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (637+ words) By Cailin Acosta in San Diego As Rosh Hashanah approaches, Director of Operation and Outreach Brandon Fisher’s “Four Elements of Teshuvah” series at Beth Jacob Congregation turned to air, or ruach, and the role confidence plays in helping people recognize…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (40+ words) You stay in guilt and shame You reject a part of yourself You stay in guilt and shame You were never confident You were never able to trust yourself It was a result of …...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (29+ words) At the core of understanding rejection in Islam is the concept of Qadr (divine destiny). What humans perceive as painful rejection is understood as divine …...