Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice - Welcome to Sugar Maddy !!!

Well well well hellooooo Ladies and Gentleman,

First of all, I would just like to thank you all so much for visiting my new blog! Your support and kindness means the absolute world to me so thank you. Secondly, boy oh boy is it terrifying to finally be back here after such a long, but much needed, time apart (RIP Fresh Whipp). And thirdly, for those of you who don’t know me just yet, my name is Maddy and I am most likely the lamest person you will ever come across.

My story is not so special. The last five years have been an emotional and physical roller-coaster consumed by moments of anxiety, laughter, starvation, happiness, conformity, exclusion, love and fear. To say it has been rough is an understatement, but to say it hasn’t been the time of my life, would be a lie. My mental health began to deteriorate at the age of 14 where vigorous exercise and the shrinking of my body to become as small as it could be was my reason to get up every day. At the age of 16, I finally realised that I wasn’t living at all, if anything I was a walking, breathing, lifeless corpse playing the role of a happy teenage girl to please those around me. Now at the wise ripe old age of 19 (wink wink) I am beginning to discover some pretty profound life lessons (well I found them pretty profound anyways) that have helped me start my journey to accept who I am, to disregard social stigma’s about body image, and to let my body weigh and look however it wants to. And I would really love to help you do the same.

This blog is designed to be, not only a safe space for all whom enter (yes I do truly mean ALL), but a place where we bring to light topics that would otherwise be kept in the dark. My goal is to help to normalise conversations about how much we love ourselves, how much we love our bodies and how proud we are of ourselves every single day. I want to disable the deeply engrained ‘rules’ of diet culture that constantly make us live in fear that we ‘aren’t good enough’. It is time to talk about these issues that plague our mental health and deteriorate our relationship between our psyche and our physical self.

And I cannot wait to go on this journey with you, because in all honesty, I need it as much as you do.

Lots of love, Sugar Maddy xoxo.