Guest guest Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 Woman's Body Image Real Beauty - A Healing Story About Body Size By Cait JohnsonTo take pleasure in a world filled with many kinds of beauty is a joyin life to which all women are entitled. To support only one kind ofbeauty is to be somehow unobservant of nature.--Clarissa Pinkola EstesAfter a lifetime of being shamed for the lush abundance of her body,Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves, made apilgrimage to her ancestral village in Mexico, where she made anamazing discovery.If you sometimes struggle with issues around weight and body size, thishealing story will give you hope and comfort.On the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Ms. Estes found a race of large, strongwomen who patted her, fussed over her, and told her she was not quitefat enough. Had she been ill? Did she eat enough? They told her shemust try harder, "for women are La Tierra, made round like the earthherself, for the earth holds so much."If your weight puts you at risk for serious health problems, that isone thing. But if you, like so many of us, are shamed by mediaadvertising so you will be motivated to spend money trying to changeyour shape to attain an impossible ideal--thereby making somebody afortune--take heart. All over the world, at this very moment, women ofabundant size are loved and respected. Can you walk like one of thelarge-bodied goddesses whose statues have been unearthed throughout theworld? Can you love your healthy flesh? What an act of pure, subversiveself-love that would be! "A clean house is a sign of a misspent life" EverythingNatur -- Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/234 - Release 1/18/2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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