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at 30 i feel sexy and beautiful. much more than i did at 115 lbs when i had major eating disorders. i hurts me to read that other women dont realize how beautiful they are

::sniff:: that is so beautiful

I look at my beautiful children these days and think..my god, I made these people..there must be something amazing in me..:D

branny, thank you for sharing this here.

you know how i feel about this. i hate that our society does this to women. we are amazing, beautiful creatures...

thank you.

hugs...

::sniff:: that is so beautiful

I look at my beautiful children these days and think..my god, I made these people..there must be something amazing in me..:D


yes! not only are you an amazing woman (look at all you have overcome!) but you are stunning
you have a voice that is the perfect blend of sexy huskiness and sarcasm. i am honoured to know you.


all of you

I just LOVE this poem. When you posted it before, several weeks ago, I bookmarked it. I read it often. :heart:

That's beautiful Branwyn :)

Having children definitely improved my body image.. it seems like now there are reasons fo rme to be the way I am.. and that expresses it eloquently :)

Branwyn,that is so Beautiful! :heart: Thank you so much for sharing it! I have gained some weight in the past 6 months and haven't been feeling good about it. I started dieting and my dh said something so sweet to me yesterday. He said,"why would you want to do that? You look like a beautiful Greek Goddess!" :D
Meg,I know how you feel. Yes,you are a amazing woman! :heart:

I too feel sad for folks with poor self image. Even when I was 325 I thought I was cute LOL. Its all in your outlook. I really love being curvy!

Very sweet! I always tell birthing Mamas that they are made to be snuggly for their babies. I know me, I always carry extra padding while I'm nursing, nature's gift to ensure we both are well taken care of. Perfect! Why fight it!?

That's really lovely. I communicate in prose, so no poetry from me, but here is one of my favorites


"Curvature

My belly was never meant to be no mesa
all high, windy flat and dry.
I've got precious eggs in here to protect.
If you see bones showing,
I'm not doing my job.
You've got to think burial mounds
or the sacred hills that roll in Lakota lands.
You've got to feel a new moon
curving up cozy in bud-womb trees.
Or a beaver's dam , close-packed and shaggy,
hugging in all the Mississippi mud water
that doesn't have a date down in New Orleans.
My round, firm, boastful and bountiful belly
is every horizon that has never been sailed.
It is the flesh and blood curvature
of a thousand planets all orbiting
the brightest light they can find.
That's what heavenly bodies do.

-Mary Scott"



I'm a a pretty good place right now with my body image. Still not great but much better than It has been in some time. I've been overweight from the age of 6 and am only now even beginning to come to some kind of terms with it. Its a tough thing, especially as I have no "thin image" of myself to come back to. I tried for the longest time to completely ignore my outside and just focus on liking what's inside. That's really not possible. It seperated me from everything physical about me and it ignored the reality of things. I'm now trying to actually enjoy my abundance :)

i love that poem hastings!

we are goddesses every one of us

(just a wee pit tipsy here)

Branwyn, that poem is beautiful, thanks so much for sharing it!

(just a wee pit tipsy here)


:monkeydan shhh...they'll know we've been drinking together! :monkeydan

yes! not only are you an amazing woman (look at all you have overcome!) but you are stunning
you have a voice that is the perfect blend of sexy huskiness and sarcasm. i am honoured to know you.


all of you


oooh. she drinks and gets extremely poetic...sexy huskiness. i like that-it describes meg's voice well!

Branwyn that was wonderful :heart:

Branwyn that is beautiful, and yes, you are a beautiful, amazing woman. :heart: I just wish I got to see you more often. :(

Thank you for that poem. I am the largest I have ever been and lately I have been quite miserable about it. I needed that.

Hope to see you in Atlanta!

awsome!!!

Thank you for that poem. I am the largest I have ever been and lately I have been quite miserable about it. I needed that.

Hope to see you in Atlanta!


she doesn't know it yet but i will personally be dragging her to the homeschool convention...hell or high water...you'll see her ;) she wants to go but i'll make sure she makes it there, lol.

funny thing is, bran is probably the most easily identifiable amitymama so just look for someone that looks very 'branwyn-esque' and it's a sure bet.

Hmm...Branwyn, I might need to add you to my list on the Personal Place board....and I don't usually do the goth thing.....

Beautiful poems mamas!

I was watching Peter Pan with my 3yr old dd tonight and there is this scene I had forgotten with Tinkerbell....
http://hotels.about.com/library/photos/dl_dlh/tinkerbell.jpg

and she's mad at her hips for being too big--she's seeing herself in a mirror and then trying to get through a keyhole. So much sh*t society passes on to our daughters--and so many expectations we pass on to our boys.....

Hmm...Branwyn, I might need to add you to my list on the Personal Place board....and I don't usually do the goth thing.....

Beautiful poems mamas!

I was watching Peter Pan with my 3yr old dd tonight and there is this scene I had forgotten with Tinkerbell....
http://hotels.about.com/library/photos/dl_dlh/tinkerbell.jpg

and she's mad at her hips for being too big--she's seeing herself in a mirror and then trying to get through a keyhole. So much sh*t society passes on to our daughters--and so many expectations we pass on to our boys.....



aw thanks, i might be on someones list!!!!

aw thanks, i might be on someones list!!!!


;)

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Bran, that was awesome! Curvy mamas kick booty. The thing that is strange, id that when I was a size 10 I thought I was huge. Now that I couldn't hope to fit into a size 10, I think I'm looking pretty alright.

While we're at it, I can't let a thread like this pass without Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman. This is just the first stanza as to not take up the whole page, lol.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Wow, Branwyn. I needed that tonight. And the Maya Angelou poem is one of my favorites. Every once in awhile I copy that one and send it to all the women in my family. I am bigger now than I have ever been and started weight watchers again recently. I told my hubby I wish I could get back to the size I was when we met (yeah, right! which in reality would not be healthy), he sat me down and said he would support me if I wanted to lose the weight but that he thinks of me as a goddess no matter what size and I should live like I am a goddess. What a cool guy :heart:


Karen

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doing a bump