Peel Away Toxic Messages

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

Wellness

 It seems to me, the world has turned many reasonable things into "trends" and "shoulds" and "money-making opportunities".  I'm weary of the commercialization of everything.  kastilwell

Natural Intelligence

 What a relief!!!  The compulsion to "improve" is so embedded, it's going to take the rest of my life to untangle the knots and trust who I am becoming.  kastilwell

Been Waiting My Whole Life

 How faithful my body has been in spite of being taken for granted for decades.  

I joke that my body is there to carry my mind around and it's true most of the time.  

It's a new experience to befriend this body with it's miraculous functions. Sacred territory.  kastilwell

Trying to Meet Expectations

 

Research

 

Science Is

And it's ok to be wrong.  It's a great way to learn how to do better.

I hope we can learn to accept failure as a stepping stone and ease up

on ourselves and others. kastilwell