The Journey of a Friendly Giant

“You don’t look like you’ve had a baby.” I get that line a lot. I know it’s meant as a complement, but I always feel a bit insulted. It makes me wonder what is thought about women that don’t lose the pregnancy weight? That are curvier than me, or don’t have time to workout because they are too busy taking care of their high-needs baby? It also sort of undermines all of the hard work that I’ve put in to achieve my own goals. I’m sure you will notice that based on many of my posts; but What I struggle with most is being openly over-criticized during the process of motherhood. Parenting is hard enough as it is without getting constantly judged by every Jane, Dick and Joe that crosses your path. I also wonder what that says to them about the quality of my parenting? Does it suggest that I am a good parent or a bad one? The way that I look should have nothing to do with that information, people should instead gauge how well I’m doing, and how well any mother is doing based on how happy,heal...

Journal blog post: Word for word. 10/12/2014 The world makes it easy for everyone to be fake. In fact, there are countless examples, where falsehood is celebrated, admired and envied. Take Kim Kardashian for example; she faked her way through an awful sex-tape, and several failed relationships with several famous men to get her name, her face and the other body parts that she flaunts, on the map. Then she “breaks the internet” by exposing her cosmetically enhanced, and generously photoshopped naked body for the world to see. People are still talking about those photos, which makes me wonder how many children have seen it as well… probably too many by now... Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against Mrs. Kanye West; she’s just doing what she needs to do to get the attention she craves… However, she is the prime example of a superficial society being influenced by the physically beautiful people of the world. Even if her beauty has been cosmetically enhanced, it ...