by Emily Wierenga | Nov 5, 2012 | (in)courage, bloom, book giveaway, book review, book study, chasing silhouettes, dayspring, eating disorders, fall recommended read, love, self-love, she loves, womanhood
…we’re in bed, and my husband leans in, and i ask him to tell me, just one more time. “but why?” he says, this farm-boy that walked me through my relapse when i was 23. “don’t you know it by now?” he says.i shake my head. “tell me again,” i say.“i love... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 17, 2012 | anorexia, attention, boy, brother, bulimia, chasing silhouettes, duane scott, eating disorders, family, giveaway, imperfect prose on thursdays, starvation
(guest post by duane scott)He’s not a tall boy, I notice, and so thin. Almost sickly. His arms look like a boy half his age. We’re in Canada at a boy’s retreat and my heart goes out to him so I look him square with empathy because I’m ready to hear his story, whatever... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 2, 2012 | book, chasing silhouettes, emme, emmenation, giveaway, plus-size, promotion, supermodel, twitter
Join us?So much love…. e. by Emily Wierenga | Sep 28, 2012 | art, chasing silhouettes, creation, etsy, free, gift, giveaway, printable, thank you
(to thank you for all of the love you’ve shown me this week, with the release of Chasing Silhouettes and so many of you helping me to promote it… i want to share these pieces of art with you. feel free to “steal” them for your desktop, or to... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 26, 2012 | book launch, book release, chasing silhouettes, death, dying, eating disorders, giclee print, giveaway, hope, imperfect prose on thursdays, meal, nurses, she loves magazine, skinny
Rachel Naomi Reimer wrote, “What a blessing it is to outlive your self-judgement and harvest your failures.”I think it’s a blessing just to outlive something.Because the nurses said I should have died. Funny, I didn’t feel like I was dying. I didn’t really feel like I... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 19, 2012 | book giveaway, chasing silhouettes, fear, giclee print, giveaway, God, imperfect prose on thursdays, meditation, prodigal magazine, running, Stephen King, writer, writing
It’s the seventh day of vacation and I’m resting after six days of creating, like God did in the beginning, only I suspect God wasn’t drinking a beer and reading Stephen King’s Bag of Bones.But he may have been sitting by the water like I am. Staring at the way it...