Finding peace with our bodies – the way we look, rolls, wrinkles, and all – can be an excruciatingly difficult experience for many of us. We have been bombarded by images, messages, and advice on how to look better, younger, thinner, sexier. We have been teased for our weight issues, or ridiculed for our breast size. We have been excluded because we are not thin enough, not pretty enough, not sexy enough, or not young enough by someone else’s standards. We have been told – either directly or with subtle messages – that we are not good enough because of the way we look. We hold pain deep within us from some comment, some humiliating experience, some moment when we knew we did not measure up. We hold it in and it eats away at our self-esteem, body image, and well-being.
The truth is…..it is almost impossible to measure up to these standards. The popular media’s image of beauty is not realistic, not attainable. What is realistic and attainable is the journey toward inner peace, positive body image, health, and well-being. One way to begin this journey is through a dedicated and positive writing practice such as the one taught in The Body Journal, an upcoming workshop at Women Writing for (a) Change.
The Body Journal workshop will give you the tools to learn to use writing to find peace with who you are, improve your body image, achieve weight loss goals, and support you in your journey toward a healthy lifestyle. Using a number of journaling techniques and prompts, we will begin to write our way out of the negative body space we are in and shift our focus toward the positive. What is great about you? What’s beautiful? What’s unique? What can you appreciate, celebrate, and flaunt? And why not celebrate it all?
Please join me, Dawn Koch on Saturday, October 23 at Women Writing for (a) Change to create your own Body Journal and begin or continue your journey toward a healthy mind and body.
To register, contact: Women Writing for (a) Change
(513) 271-1171/www.womenwriting.org
Cost: $30
Women Writing for (a) Change
6906 Plainfield Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236
(513) 272-1171
ddiebold@womenwriting.org
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