Pruning the Beast: How a Virus Forced Us to Face the Inevitable — Nicole Sallak Anderson
7 min readApr 27, 2020
In my early thirties, I threw out my bathroom scale. I could no longer tolerate the daily measuring of my weight-up a few pounds and my mood turned dry and cracked, like an old desert father’s skin, for the rest of the day. Down a few pounds and I suddenly though I was Cindy Crawford. After twenty years of measuring my worth through the…