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Trigger Warning This text includes personal experiences with disordered eating, body image struggles, weight, and competitive sport. Please take care while reading. As part of my journey with The Body Positive course, I’m doing a lot of inner work. It has brought me back to my childhood, my teenage years, and especially my early twenties, a time when many of us leave home for the first time, move away from our parents, go to university, and suddenly have complete freedom. Th

Lately, I’ve noticed that my blog is changing. It’s moving away from school, daily routines, and what happens around me, and more toward what is happening inside me. Maybe it’s just a phase. Maybe it’s exactly what I need right now: a place where I can observe myself, where I can say out loud how I’m changing and how I’m trying to understand myself a little better. What has become clearer to me is that I am someone who needs security. I need stability, something to hold on to

Often, when I’m at school and then look at my dog, I notice an astonishing number of parallels to children, to relationships, to how we interact as human beings. It’s only in the past few years that I’ve really become aware of this. I remember, I must have been seventeen or eighteen when I happened to stumble upon Maja Nowak’s books The Woman Who Dances with Dogs and Wanja and the Wild Dogs .Her way of being with dogs, of seeing them, understanding them, and learning somethi