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BellyLines is about impowering apple shaped women, changing the current perception of belly fat and apple shape, + encouringing better body image for all!
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I’ve gained more weight, again
Thank you perimenopause. Thank you life.
Beauty’s new language
If you want change, change the language you use.
More than a belly
We can only be that which exists in language, so, for a very long time I have been a woman with a belly, with a big stomach, apple shaped.
Be mad, be sad, be angry, but don’t be ashamed or ever feel guilty of your body
A poem
Introduction to a book I'll never publish
or at least not yet ;)
Ready or not, perimenopause is here
what will happen to my belly?
I think I look best now, when I have some meat on my bones and I’m a bit filled out
confidence boost poem
Shoulding myself - present
I really should keep a running journal.
I will never have a flat belly!
Should we let go of ideal we will never reach?
we are not the only ones
You are not the only one who's feeling like you don't belong in this room because you don't even know what the people in this room are talking about, and you're just sitting here, feeling so worthless and out of place, even if it is not your job to know the things that they know, and you just have to sit there.
The shaped they never showed us
and the shame that come with it
When the fear stops you from doing what you love
like a musician who plays wonderfully but has stage fright
If you told me this would be me, I wouldn’t have believed you
get to know me better
Ode to empty page
Emptying my soul on paper
Women put themselves into boxes without even realising it
When the power of language becomes a curse
Live with BellyLines
A recording from BellyLines's live video
I'm not sure I'll ever come back
Hello my dears,
The one who ended up not hating her belly
A version of me in some other reality
Here is why we really go on a diets
Here me out - I’ve just had one of those light bulb moments and I’m bursting with this newest realization