Her Success Radio

How much do you enjoy your body? If you’re anything like me… Even the question itself would make me shut down and want to crawl under the covers. What do you mean, how much I enjoy my body? If I lost 10 lbs, I would enjoy it more. For years, my love for my body… Ahem… Not “love” — my tolerating of my body was completely conditional on whether that said body complied with and conformed to the expectations that I had of it. Which were really, really simple. Staying at the same constant “ideal” weight. And not aging. Really, is that too much to ask? It took me some time — and awareness of what I now call Patriarchy Stress Disorder — the trauma of 1000s of years of oppression and how it has shaped our relationships with ourselves, our bodies — among other things… To ask that question. My relationship with my body. My expectations of my body. Were they really… MINE… or were they issued by Patriarchy Press? You can probably guess the answer. Can you relate? Asking that question and confronting the truth of the answ