How's Your Body Image Doing?
4 quick questions + this week's body image lesson
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Welcome to the fifth installment of my Substack vertical, VOLUMINATI. This vertical is a monthly series of experimental audiotextual (audio + text) essays. The full essay is available for paid subscribers. You can listen to this month’s edition by scrolling down to the bottom of the article and hitting play.
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…
Trying to locate where your body image feelings live is a great practice in self-awareness and embodiment. 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 clear or empowered.
Scroll all the way down & hit play to get a quick grounding exercise + pep talk from me and listen to this week’s body image lesson, or keep reading…
Before we get started, let’s ground a little:
Wiggle your fingers.
Wiggle your toes.
Unclench your jaw.
Unclench you shoulders.
Unclench your belly.
Unclench your thighs.
Now take 4 big, slow breaths. As you inhale, I want you to make your belly as big as possible and on the exhale, imagine you’re slowly blowing out a candle.
