DO I LOOK FAT?
Most women and many men have some degree of dissatisfaction with the way they look. From the time we are born we are bombarded with images telling us everything that is wrong with our bodies, we are not thin enough, nothing is the right size, from our breasts to our butts, we are too old, our hair is a mess, even our feet are all wrong. For men it usually is about how much hair you have, how tall you are and almost all magazines emphasize your sexual prowess and penis size in overt and subtle messages. These images are juxtaposed with the billion images of airbrushed imaginary beings that are perfected to look sexy so they can sell us mere mortals all the things we need to buy so we too can be just as glossy, gorgeous and of course steamy hot, hot, hot.
We are obsessed in this culture with the need to be sexy. Just look at some of the clothes on the rack for 9 year olds. Just the other day I saw they were selling thongs in the children’s department! No wonder so many of us after hearing about how sexy, oh so sexy we are supposed to be look in the mirror and go, “not so sexy.”
In this presentation we will look at the images the media feeds us with a different perception and create a dialogue on how to:
We are obsessed in this culture with the need to be sexy. Just look at some of the clothes on the rack for 9 year olds. Just the other day I saw they were selling thongs in the children’s department! No wonder so many of us after hearing about how sexy, oh so sexy we are supposed to be look in the mirror and go, “not so sexy.”
In this presentation we will look at the images the media feeds us with a different perception and create a dialogue on how to:
- Recognize the false messages that make us feel bad.
- How to affirm our worth outside of our bodies.
- Find peace with food and body image
- Learn the power of words
- See how comparison and judgment do us no service