Tag: body image
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Body Positives: Getting Personal but Keeping It PG
***Me, late 20’s. New mom.*** In a world where we, if no one else, know all the millions of physical flaws we carry on our bodies and are reminded of our inadequacies in almost any women’s magazine, is it possible to love your body? Don’t we women constantly look for what’s wrong instead of…
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Body Image: Are You a Temple or a Tool?
Photo by Howie Berlin Sitting outside my doctor’s lab and waiting my turn to “donate” blood, I was struck by a conversation I overheard in which the nurse explained that she’d seen everything and it was “all natural.” What bothered her patient about body image didn’t bother the nurse at all. She said that she…
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Enjoying My Flaws
Photo by true2source I have strawberries. There’s a medical term for it, but I don’t remember it. [added: cherry angioma] All I remember is that my lovers have always referred to them as “strawberries”—either with great fascination or great disdain and precious little in between. They’re tiny scarlet freckles, no larger than the size…