by Emily Wierenga | Dec 13, 2013 | anorexia, dieting, eating disorders, food, hollywood, hunger, Jennifer Lawrence, letter, starving, The Hunger Games, womanhood
Dear Jennifer Lawrence,Thank you. For eating.For being Hollywood’s Mockingjay. For being a symbol of the rebellion against anorexia and eating disorders. For putting an end to Hollywood’s “Hunger Games”.You’re not the stereotypical... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 9, 2013 | #imperfectprose, anorexia, appetite, children, daughters, eating, feeding, food, guide, how-to, obesity, skinny, sons, spiritual, spirituality
I am at the splash park with my boys, and there is a little girl, unable to move because she’s so obese.She waddles across the sand in her two-piece and then flops down on the ground and wails until her father picks her up and places her on the picnic table and... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 3, 2013 | anorexia, brain cancer, caregiving, faith, God, hollywood, homeschooling, Jesus, love, marriage, mum, virginity
This, friends, is what I wish the world knew about love. I wish I could take the world on my knee and hold it close and then tell it stories of my life and my family and what they’ve taught me about the kind of love no Hollywood movie can capture.The kind of... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 30, 2013 | amy hollinsworth, anorexia, book giveaway, Christ, closet, gay, homosexuality, letters from the closet, new creation, starving
When Amy Hollingsworth, a Christian author known for her work surrounding Mister Rogers, approached me about doing a giveaway of her new book, Letters from the Closet: Ten Years of Correspondence that Changed My Life, she told me that Christians were refusing to help... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 12, 2013 | #HuffingtonPost, #mominthemirror, anorexia, appearance, beauty, body, body image, daughter, eating disorders, looks, Sarah Koppelkam, self-esteem
I recently read an article in The Huffington Post regarding how to talk to your daughter about her body, and it said not to.It said, Don’t talk to your daughter about her body, except to teach her how it works.Don’t say anything if she’s lost weight.... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 9, 2013 | anniversary, anorexia, eating disorder, faith, inked, korea, love, marriage, tattoos, travel
Today is Trent’s and my 10th anniversary.To celebrate, we got inked. We got tats on our shoulder and shoulder blade. It is my husband’s first tattoo and my third, and it hurt, but we winced and held each other’s hand while our Young Life...