(self) body image
Added 2023-07-31 15:11:56 +0000 UTCPosting these pictures is a big thing for me...
The self-voices that accompanied pretty all my life judging my body (you're too fat/broad/chubby..., your legs are too big blablabla) are still there sometimes... As a tennager and young woman my strateges to tackle them were very different: not coming from a place of care or love, they were self-destructive. My body weight fluctuated massively from time to time, my dieting and my exercise regime could be brutal; all that. I lived not loving my body for decades, hating it.
Such a difference of being in the world right now. I doesn't not mean that those voices have disappeared completely. However, now I listened to them with compassion and with a different awareness, and I have my strategies so they do not take control of my life.
I sometimes still miss my flat belly, but I don't miss my anxiety. I sometimes miss my firmer thighs, but I don't miss being obsessed with exercising everyday in order to balance my food intake...
Being healthy on all levels (physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually), and living in a healthy environment (community and nature) is the most important thing for me. Not my weight.
Have you have or do you have body image issues, food disorders...?
Sending love and compassion
Comments
Aw Roger, I really appreciate your comments, thank you for your appreciations regarding many important aspects. I particularly love that you feel that I'm a kind witch... This means a lot, I admire witches, those sage women connected to the land, with great wisdom and experience, and going their own way. Yes, the erotic, eroticism, the caleidoscopic lifeforce rather than the one-dimensional sexual as you say!
Angela
2023-08-16 13:44:57 +0000 UTCAbout you; it's your joy that comes across so well in your photos, with a little impishness and the sense that in real life you are a kind witch. You also understand the erotic which isn't the same as being one-dimensional sexual. As far as I'm concerned you can eat as many pastries as you like, I'll still love what you do.
Roger B
2023-08-15 16:32:59 +0000 UTCAs I've got older I focus more on my enjoyment of life than how others see me, this is probably easier for a bloke because we're not brought up to create an image of physical perfection. I used to worry about standard male stuff; size of gut, size of penis, weak chin, can't remember what else. Now I know there was nothing to worry about and I don't care. Naturism helps.
Roger B
2023-08-15 16:27:21 +0000 UTC
