Women are beginning to wake up to this. It's mighty work to disentangle ourselves from the programming we've been swimming in since birth. When I think back to my teen and early adult years, I cringe at the indoctrination into the world of "beauty" and "fashion" and "thinness". My mother spent my childhood seesawing between diet pills and tranquilizers. It wasn't until years later, I realized how unhealthy and tragic the messages were she was responding to and unintentionally passing along to her daughters and to my daughters! What a crock of nonsense we've been sold! kastilwell
Kathy, this is a time for women to come into their own and to express our wisdom voices, I'm quite sure. How this happens will be individual for each of us.
ReplyDeleteBut I had a mother, too, who had a fixation with weight. It wasn't a good message for me, either. I'm afraid we're not alone, but there is healing.
Sending all good thoughts,
LW