How's Your Body Image Doing?
4 quick questions + what I learned from doing a death meditation this week
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.
Additional reading:
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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 just keep reading…
I was unexpectedly in the middle of a death meditation this week.
It was Wednesday, and I thought I was just heading into a reading for a new book by a monk, Ishan Shivanand, who spent the first 20 years of his life in a monastery in India. I found my seat at the back of the room — ready to bolt at any moment — and set down my 1000 personal items (purse, tote bag, coffee, notebook, pen, coat). I had chosen that spot, the closest to the door, because I’ve