by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
Ladies, brace yourself. Confident You is back for the second time in 2016 with a TWO WEEK body confidence challenge. Starting 1st December this short and sweet challenge will see you question, and in a lot of cases break through, the ideas you have about your body,...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
Oh, Kylie. I read those words, and I felt sorry for the child you were. That girl, she was all of us. Did anyone ever tell you that? That girl worried about if boys will like her, was all* of us. We all wanted to be liked, valued and unfortunately, in this world for...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Lifestyle
To kick off swimwear week, I’m talking about swimming as exercise. Because I love it and because there was a long time that I didn’t swim because I was weird about being seen at the local pool in my swimmers. Maybe that’s you too. But trust me,...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence, Lifestyle
The week I got home from Melbourne I felt like rubbish. Months, literally, of late nights, partying, eating poorly and little to no exercise had caught up with me and I was wrecked. It took me a while to acknowledge that I wasn’t taking care of myself. I...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
As a plus size blogger, I consider myself to be body positive. I have to be. For my entire life, people have told me my body is wrong and that it should be different. Someone had to love my body; it might as well be me. So when I attended the local showing of Embrace,...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Personal
Do you ever have those days where it feels like you are never full? Your stomach is a bottomless pit for food and beverages, and there’s nothing in the world that will satisfy your hunger for long? Oh man, tell me it’s not just me. I’m going to go...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
My story about body shame, confidence, and finding my way out is too familiar to need repeating. I was a young woman who wanted a body that was different from the one I had. So I starved and strived and exercised and counted and struggled. My body never did change...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
I asked readers of this blog what the number one problem they were dealing with relating to confidence. Do you want to guess what the number one response was? The number one response was body confidence. How to have body confidence, where it came from and how to keep...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
It’s a tricky thing, writing this without sounding boastful or conceited or whatever the correct version of that is. So let’s just say for argument’s sake I’m not any of those things and I’m trying to help. Then we can move on and I can...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence, Gifted, She Wore What
I’ve been pondering swimwear week a little more than is actually necessary. And not the reasons most are; as they debate what they will and won’t show, will and won’t do. I had what I planned to wear organised. A cute outfit and the gorgeous swimmers...
by Melissa Walker Horn | Confidence
Every time you tell a woman to cover her chunky arms. When you question the health of a slim model or berate a fatter one. Every single time you tell a Mother to be discreet while feeding her baby. When you say those shorts are too short. Every time you decide that...
