As I’ve been assimilating all that I’ve been learning, I have been thinking about the most helpful things I can convey here. Chief of these: find a way to see yourself objectively. We all kinda intuitively know that if we look in the mirror and start fluffing the hair, something is not quite right with …
I pulled this post out of my first month of blogging, because of its illustration of the Gestalt principle of Figure and Ground; that is, how the eye differentiates between a figure and it’s background. It is reflecting on an event from December 1, 2005; but the principle is no different now, eight years on. …
… in which I discuss my own body image issues in some detail. Last week I listed to a podcast on weight and body image. Hearing women describe their parents’ criticism of their bodies in childhood was shocking. That is not my story. Nevertheless, I asked myself, “do I remember any comments critical of my …
