Violation Normalized. {poetry}
My body changed, what to do? Perhaps I dared to mention this? Innocent young girl hoping for help, so very confused, mother in panic.
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body
Her Notion of Reality and the Feelings of Her Body.
She forced herself up... She had to snap back to this world. This reality. Her body ready for action, ready for movement.
How Women’s Circles Helped Heal My Relationship With Food.
Women’s circles gave me the space to tell my story from the deepest truth I knew. A space where the shame and guilt was removed.
Feel Injustice With All Your Senses in Order to Know.
The moment you see something with your own eyes and feel injustice with all your senses, you cross an inner border, you know you can’t go back from there.
Listen to Your Body, and Hold Space for Yourself.
Moving the body in a gym workout can help. Emotions are stored in the body, and when we tire ourselves out enough, there is less resistance to feeling them.
The Grandeur of the Body: Breaking Free from Suburbia.
As I approach my 10-year high school reunion, I ruminate on the glory and derision I have for small towns. Small minds and how we cage ourselves up, unaware of all we have before us if only we ventured beyond our borders. How getting to fully know ourselves and our place amidst the vastness of ...
The Labyrinth: A Series of Art. {Part Nine: Our Body, Our Temple}
Make joy your priority. Life is too heavy to not make it so, because it’s the body that suffers when we do not take this into account.
10 Easy Changes You Can Make to Be More Mindful of Your Body and Health.
You schedule birthdays and meetings, but do you make plans for nonworking time? That should be a priority too, or you will burn out.
Love Your Perfectly Imperfect Body.
My worth is determined by me. Society does not get to define my beauty... I love everything this body does for me, oftentimes without my conscious effort.
My Body Likes It When I Listen.
I know how I have cried, and cursed this body. I know how, when I got my period for the first time, I shut myself in a room and cried, saying "I hate this!"