Miranda Kate

Tag: self-acceptance

  • Finding balance

    A few months ago, I wrote an article for Best Kept Self about what I had learned from my eating disorder. The therapist I saw to help me work through this told me that recovery for eating disorders is typically 5-7 years. Initially, I found this statistic discouraging and felt a little hopeless every time…

  • The truth about your self-worth

    As my dating fast comes to a close, I want to share a few more things I’ve learned from these last few months. I think the biggest thing is actually pretty obvious, but not necessarily easy to feel all the time. You really can’t determine your self-worth from a guy. I know, crazy right? It…

  • High Standards: why I have them and why you should too

    I’m going to go ahead and give you the key takeaway from this post: You should have high standards for yourself, your relationships, your career and your life because you deserve them. I just saved you five more minutes of reading; so, you’re welcome. Here’s the deal: high standards and being a perfectionist are NOT…

  • The dangers of being a perfectionist

    I used to take pride in the fact that I was a perfectionist. I mean, surely wanting things to be perfect is a good thing, right? Perfect grades, perfect body, perfect behavior…perfect life. Who wouldn’t want that? I loved watching movies and TV shows and reading books that depict what I liked think was the…

  • Wilmington, NC (Looking back on an amazing summer).

    Earlier this summer I posted about my first photo-shoot and talked about self-acceptance. I’m still working on this but I definitely feel I’ve made some strong progress (yay for self-improvement!) It’s still hard for me to accept that summer is over, it really was an amazing couple of months and even though the school year…

  • Confessions of a Serial People-Pleaser

    Do you ever say or do something to get someone’s approval? I don’t. Wait, no, I do. All the time. (sigh). Whether it’s agreeing to watch a movie I don’t want to see, sacrificing time that I could be studying/working to accommodate someone else’s schedule, eating something I don’t really want to so the other…

  • You are Amazing

     I hope everyone had a good, relaxing weekend, I know I did! I went to visit my godmother/aunt in Atlanta and stayed with her family, we got mani-pedis, ate amazing food and just generally had an awesome time. My aunt also has a very cool blog about organizing, called Neatsmart, definitely go check it out!…