How's Your Body Image Doing?
3 quick questions & you're done!
My latest essay:
Coming up next week: “Decolonial Optics: Learning to See - Not Surveil - Fat People”
Checking in weekly with your body image can help you feel less overwhelmed and may even help you spot positive or negative patterns. Let’s do this!
No matter how you answered, kudos for taking the time to notice how you feel. Next question…
Having a small, easy action item helps you learn to take care of yourself and your body image. Ready for your last check-in question?
This week, notice if checking in with your body image helped you feel more empowered.
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Last week we talked about creating an intentional relationship with your body, and how building a relationship with your body will bring you into a process of self-knowledge. Let’s continue where we left off, and start with thinking about this:
We are so primed by our perfectionist culture to focus on what we’re “supposed” to be doing or what our healing process is “supposed” to look like. But here’s the thing: part of healing our relationship to our bodies is