Elizabeth Patch's More to Love Blog » Self-esteem http://elizabethpatch.com Art & Inspiration for All Sizes! Sun, 20 May 2012 20:47:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 I Hate My Face http://elizabethpatch.com/2012/04/i-hate-my-face.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2012/04/i-hate-my-face.html#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:30:28 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/?p=6737

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How many times have you had (or overheard) this conversation: “I hate my hips, my boobs, my thighs, my butt” ? I’ve lost count… May women (regardless of size) fight an almost daily battle to learn to live in our bodies with confidence and positive attitude.

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The seeds of change I plant today become the garden of my dreams.

No, I’m not just speaking of plants… Whether it’s achieving a long term goal or carrying on with a long term project, tiny seeds sometimes take a very long time to flower and bear fruit.

The big dreams in anyone’s garden take time. A beautiful

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So I thought I would have some “girly down time” with a glass of wine and a fashion magazine. But as I flipped through

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It can be very inspiring to admire and emulate those who are the best in their fields: athletes, artists, masters of anything from cooking to dancing to fashion design. But it can also be very disheartening: No matter how much I try, or how how I work at it I’ll never be as good as  (name

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So very much of our lives as women are colored by feelings that everything must be “perfect”: the perfect body, the perfect face, the perfect hair, the perfect home, the perfect clothes and the perfect holidays.

Must buy the perfect gift! Must bake the perfect cookies! Must have the

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I never let my size determine the shape of my dreams!

Go get a piece of paper. Make a list of every single thing that you wanted to be when you were a kid. Yes, even rockstar!

Get another piece of paper. Make a list of every single thing that you would love to be now, as

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]]> http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/12/rock-your-dreams.html/feed 5 Ate Like a Pig. Feel Like a Whale. http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/11/ate-like-a-pig-feel-like-a-whale.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/11/ate-like-a-pig-feel-like-a-whale.html#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:28:35 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/?p=6232 I ate like a pig. Now I feel like a whale. Or maybe a hippo, or an elephant or a blubbery walrus. I am a disgusting, worthless big fat ugly cow…

A “food hangover” is a very real physical feeling: Your belly is bloated and your clothes feel uncomfortably tight around the waist. Maybe you are also gassy,

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The 3rd Annual Lady Land Holiday Insanity illustration is here!

The holidays can be an enormously stressful time of year.

There’s pressure to spend money you may not have, pressure to shop for gifts out of obligation rather than need, and the added pressure to bake, decorate and entertain around your already busy life.

And

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Imagine the day when we laugh with our friends… And never once, not once, mention diets !

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I’m so fat. I hate my thighs. I really shouldn’t eat this. I need to lose some weight. I need to get some exercise. How many calories are in this? Diet, diet, diet, blah, blah, blah…

Many of us have

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