Diary of a Fat Girl

"Because I'm not alone in this."

This reminds me of my favorite Kurt Vonnegut quote, from /Timequake/: "Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

Blogging so frankly about your personal experiences requires a courage I truly envy. Privacy is a pretty big sacrifice to make to help people, and openness truly does help people. I can't tell you how much strength I've received over the past few years from perfect strangers who were willing to share their personal experiences and struggles with those who shared those struggles-- myself included. Keep spreading the good word :D

--Nat

i love this one. making me consider my feelings about privacy. comforting to witness your confidence and determination~~

Hi! I just posted a post and now I come across other honest bloggers and I don't feel silly for the big long post of honesty I wrote! I bared all and I didn't change my name and I really thought about why I didn't feel the need to protect myself or become annonymous, even though initially I did and that has been holding me back for writing so frankly. So Thank you!
I was just talking about PND today to other mothers at a mother baby group I co-facilitate, how normal it feels for me to talk about it openly but how for others it's a taboo. I was saying that I wished it really wasn't a taboo, or that people wwere able to talk about it just fine, because then there would be many more aware people and perhaps less sufferers because of the awareness of it being a more common than you think, situation. And that mothers who do suffer PND would be more empowered to get the help they need, etc. I suppose the Western World is generally heading toward being more emotionally intelligent.
I also went through years of eating disroders. I can honestly say that it was having children that moved me on to another place (or simply that I didn't have the time to think about it anymore!), and also macrobiotics.

i'm glad you and ruth found each other's blogs, of all the honestly sharing and inspiring blogs i follow, you are of those who are so brave as to show your names and faces!

thank you both for sharing your wonderful selves!

hi lisa~ i can't view your page anymore. is anyone else reporting problems seeing your page? my internet explorer says it can't show your page and closes automatically. this is happening on a few blogs i follow. one woman whose blog i read said her page was freaking out and she deleted her "follow" gadget on her page and it seemed to fix the problem. i don't know if that would fix this or not, or if i'm the only one who can't see your page. but i'd hate for anyone to miss out on your wisdom.