Just popping in to share a link before I forget. I really loved Joanna’s post on how we talk to little girls. Specifically, how we tend to tell them they’re pretty rather than asking them about books or other pursuits. Something to think about.
Posts under ‘Body image’
Transformation
I don’t have a ton of pictures of myself from the past few years. I’m not terribly photogenic to begin with. And then you see enough images of your multiple chins and it’s like, OK, I’ll just pretend like that‘s not happening. But I did find some outtakes from our engagement session that make for [...]
The crazy things we do to get fit
Some of us were chatting during the stretching part of our Nia class tonight about all the torturous exercise classes we’ve put ourselves through in the past. And not that it’s not important to push yourself in the name of fitness, but some of the stuff we’ve done has been truly insane. I paid a [...]
Deep breath, I’m gonna go there: body image
Sunday was nasty cold and windy (so typical of fall – it’s warm! it’s cold! it’s warm! it’s cold again!), so I decided to make the best of it and pop in my Nia DVD for some exercise. I got about 35 minutes through it. I was dancing around, sweating pretty good, feeling good that [...]
