hi! i'm McCall!

I'm a proud and imperfect mom of two tiny humans and founder of Southern Smash. I smash scales for a living and help others smash the mental health stigma by sharing my eating disorder story. I believe resiliency is cultivated through the practice of gratitude and that there is always light, even in the darkest of times.

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The House Don’t Fall When My Bones are Good

The Weight of Recovery

Finding Strength in My One Boob Reflection

Red, Hot and ANGRY Boob

Doing the Hard Things: My Prophylactic Double Mastectomy

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Thank you @glennondoyle for sharing the importance

Thank you @glennondoyle for sharing the importance of vaccines not just for ourselves, but the millions of Marjories across the globe. I’m back in a state of panic as Manning was exposed and Marjorie has a stuffy nose. We are doing everything we can. I’m counting the minutes to get my kids vaccinated. If you are able, I urge you to get vaccinated. Repost from @glennondoyle • Sunday Sermon. Love your neighbors' children as yourself. If you are able to, get vaccinated. I received this text from my friend McCall, whose baby girl Marjorie is a cancer warrior and has been on ventilators too many times already: “Hey G…I’m scared. This is Kairos time. And I feel like time is so borrowed from my premature, cancer smasher girl. She’s with me in bed and I’m listening to her breathe. Grateful for every breath. But G …her daddy and brother are away from us because big brother was exposed to Covid. I’m so damn scared. Marjorie has battled pneumonia three times in a year. She is a GD mini cheetah in every way but if people don’t get vaccinated it is my baby’s life on the line. How am I supposed to ever sleep and protect her? If you ever feel called to share to folks to get vaccinated please do it for my tiny warrior” I love you, Marjorie and @mccalldempsey. G … #covidvacccine #lovethyneighbor #wecandohardthings #miraculousmarjorie #cancersmasher #cancersurvivor #micropreemie #27weeker #smallbutmighty

The drive was too long. I needed to run the kids t

The drive was too long. I needed to run the kids to camp. My to do list was too long. I had a million reasons why I should not have made the lake trip this year. But when your Goddaughter and her mama calls, you answer. If this year has taught me anything, it’s to take every trip especially when it involves meeting your precious Godchild. My heart could burst it is so full. My stomach hurts from laughing 😆 My arms hurt from tubing 🚤 My legs hurt from learning tik tok dances 👯‍♀️ ➡️ swipe to see our killer moves I got to snuggle all the babies and big kids and teach my other daughter Ramsay how to karaoke 🎤 Thankful for this very impromptu last minute trip. So much love to my camp girls for being my ride or dies for the last 30 years. And to my mountain momma for always opening your arms and lake houses to our chaos 💗 @sheadwatkins @brittadanna @schmalden @juicedorange @kdoverstreet #campgreencove #generationcampers #happyheart #lakekeowee

Life is constantly hitting us with tragic news and

Life is constantly hitting us with tragic news and shitty road blocks. So here is a my small moment of sunshine: My girls are free for the first time in seven months. That’s right. No bra. No surgical tape. Nothing binding them in, causing me physical and mental anguish. It’s totally insignificant and silly, but it feels so freeing to finally be cleared to do anything I want. I can run, jump, lift Elsa and best of all no longer wear tight bras 24/7. There have been so many days this year that I thought this saga would never end. Who knew a simple doctor sign off to not wear a bra would signify such freedom?! Life is hard so here is to the simple joys. I’m thankful for today and the extraordinary people in my life. May we all find a simple joy and a little gratitude each day…even if it is as small as freeing the girls! 💗💗

SMASHed Cancer 🎗 Sometimes these TimeHop memor

SMASHed Cancer 🎗 Sometimes these TimeHop memories are a gut punch of hope and grief all together. Crazy to think that it was six years ago today, we heard three glorious words: “no more chemo” It felt like the world rejoiced with us in our wonderful news. While this day marked the end of chemo, we still had a fight ahead. And boy did our Marjorie fight and smash cancer to the curb. Feeling so grateful for my cancer kicking wild woman who currently kicks my booty with her sass and endless energy. Marjorie is our constant reminder that we all can do hard things. 💗💗💗 #miraculousmarjorie #nomochemo #neuroblastoma #pediatriccancer #gogold #survivor #morethanfour #smallbutmighty #smashcancer #wolfsonwarrior #proudmom #jacksonville #florida

Happy 4️⃣0️⃣ to my best friend, partner an

Happy 4️⃣0️⃣ to my best friend, partner and soulmate @jordandempseygolf!! You are our constant endless entertainment and master of hugs and laughter 🥰 You work relentlessly for our family and your students. The passion you bring to work every day is incredible. You lead by example and show our kids to dream big and love hard. You live life full steam ahead, with an energy and wit that can’t be matched. Even when we are doing the hard things, you keep me laughing. Thankful you were born and that you are forever ours!! You are easy to celebrate…even when the sitter doesn’t show up and we end up back in our jammies 😂 Happy happy birthday! We love you! #lordylordy #jordanis40 #alldressedupandnowheretogo #literally #nositternoproblem #jammietime #partyhard #julybaby #pontevedra #florida

Yesterday we returned home after 12 magical days i

Yesterday we returned home after 12 magical days in Virginia with family. We were long overdue for a trip away and to unplug from the day to day routine. Feeling so grateful for my extraordinary family, alpaca farms, boat rides, belly laughs and breathtaking sunsets. It’s truly about the simple things. Until next time Payne’s Creek Farm 💗💗💗💗

Out of office. 📝 After a brutal first six mon

Out of office. 📝 After a brutal first six months of 2021, I feel like I can finally exhale. If you need me, I’ll be kicking back in a sloth float, grateful for two boobs and High Noon. Cheers to hard things🥂 💗💗 #outofoffice #grateful #wecandohardthings #andthenrestinaslothfloat #mommaout #exhale #sunshine #slothfloat #RappahannockRiver #virginia

📣 Not so humble MOM Brag 📣 People thought I

📣 Not so humble MOM Brag 📣 People thought I was nuts for sending Manning to camp for 3️⃣ weeks. I knew he would love @campmondamin like I loved @campgreencove. However, he had a rocky start and we received a few “Pick me up Mom!” letters 📬 Can’t lie. I panicked. I was crushed. 💔 I was also so worried because Manning has some sensory issues with food we are slowly working through and camp challenged them in every way. But my little guy motored on with support from his fabulous counselor and @campmondamin’s fearless leaders, Andrew and @robertwdanos. Manning turned into a barn rat, riding every day, helping with the horses and even rocking a bandana all the time 🤠😂 Today, he proudly walked us all over camp telling us stories and explaining ALL the camp games. Camp shaped me into the person I am today. And watching Manning find his stride and independence brings me so much joy 💙 I can’t stress it enough: send your kids to camp, specifically Mondamin and Green Cove. You won’t regret it! So thankful for this place and its people and beyond proud of my truly HAPPY camper for rocking his first year. Manning is already signed up for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣! #campmondamin #100years #proudmom #camp #grateful #hurricanemanning #hesmells #sodirty #sohappy #northcarolina

If Elsa and Outdoor Cat can sit peacefully next to

If Elsa and Outdoor Cat can sit peacefully next to each other, so can you. Be like Elsa and Outdoor Cat. Be inclusive. Be kind. 💗❤️🧡💛💚💙 ➡️ also Outdoor Cat is starting to sit like Elsa 😹

Happy Day to the best dad on the block 💙💗 No

Happy Day to the best dad on the block 💙💗 No doubt your happy place is with our two munchkins draped all over you. We hit the dad jackpot - constant belly laughs, games galore, golf and snuggles 🥰 We love you @jordandempseygolf And Happy day to our Pops and Papa! How did we get so lucky? Counting our blessings today and every day 💙💙💙

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ has been about doing

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ has been about doing the hard things...hospitals, infections, drains, PICC and mid lines. This week was no different. Monday started with 3+ hours in the ER and Tuesday was much of the same. Blown mid lines and bleeding left me feeling down and exhausted. When was it going to end? Answer: today! My ID doctor pulled my (hopefully) final midline. I feel free and for today, hopeful. I also acknowledge my fear of “what’s next”...surely something else is about to go wrong. I see the fear, but don’t let it stop me. I jump in the pool with my best girl. Because for today, in this moment, there is joy. I don’t know what tomorrow will bring. It could be more hard things or it can be incredibly ordinary. Either way, we will roll with it...in gratitude, embracing hard things and working to live in the now. And not surprisingly, Marjorie is also fully thriving as the only child while Manning is at camp. 💗💗💗 #wecandohardthings #prophylacticdoublemastectomy #chek2 #geneticmutation #genetictesting

Left a piece of my heart in my happy place today.

Left a piece of my heart in my happy place today. 💙🏔 These mountains and this place made me the person I am today. @campgreencove taught me it is okay to be unapologetically myself. Camp gave me my best friends who are family. I blinked and I’ve gone from camper to counselor to now I’m the parent dropping my baby off at @campmondamin for three weeks in the mountains - with “no parents and no girls” as Manning always says. Thankful to have visited Green Cove yesterday and spend the night with my Mountain Momma. Manning and his bunk mate Wyatt jumped out of the car and didn’t look back! Soak up every minute buddy 💙 and please please shower 🥴

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