with Misty Dietz
I'm so thrilled to have Misty Dietz visiting today to share this blog she posted way back in April! I read it then and the message resonated with me strongly. I thought it was a powerful message, well worth repeating, so I got in touch with her to see if she'd be happy to have her post "re-blogged" on the LoveCats DownUnder. She was!
So here's Misty's blog...
Seeing Yourself, Loving Yourself!
I’d been meaning to write a post about the unrealistic burdens of modern beauty conceptions for weeks, but today when I came across another video about how critical women are of themselves, I was like, Damn.
Are you hard on yourself? Do you have a little voice in your head that tells you you’re not good enough, pretty enough, skinny enough, smart enough, fill-in-the-blank-with-your-inner-demon du jour…? It’s time to start speaking more gently and lovingly to ourselves. To treat ourselves with respect and dignity. To accept that we’re not perfect and if anyone expects us to be,
Where the hell do we start? One small way is by realizing that the images we see all around us every day are a cosmetic, Photoshop-obsessed fantasy. The first video below is 1:27 minutes and shows an “evolution” from regular girl to billboard perfect model. See what you think.
The whole neck stretching thing kinda freaked me out. I had no idea.
This next video is a little longer (3 minutes), but carries a powerful message. How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you? Would that image be accurate?
It struck me when the woman mentioned that how we perceive ourselves affects not only the jobs we apply for and the friends we make, but also how we treat our children and those around us.
Are you seeing the beauty in yourself? If not, are you ready to start doing something about it?
