Discussion about this post

User's avatar
jennae's avatar

This really resonated for me, I always find myself falling back into the thoughts of needing to change my body and whip it into shape like you said. This made me remember that pleasure can transform the body in deep, cellular, unseen ways.

Isn’t it more important how our bodies feel than how they look? Shouldn’t we be more concerned about the way it feels to be inside our body, attuned to sensation than to be floating outside of ourselves, overly concerned with how we are perceived? This is what this piece made me think. It also made me feel grief at how our world has steered us away from pleasure and connection to our bodies.

I love your writing. It is so alive and embodied. I’d love to hear about the 5 day challenge!

Expand full comment
Veronika Bond's avatar

"Bodily stockholm syndrome is a transitional threshold between realizing something cognitively and embodying it. In other words the space between having a grand realization in your mental awareness" How interesting! I learned something new there. I'm always interested in the 'space between'!

Expand full comment
11 more comments...

No posts