from housework to headwork

[the_siobhan]

I've been thinking a lot lately about issues of body image and such. Mostly because I don't think I know anybody who is completely content with their own body.

So I put the question to you. Do you like your body? What things do you like about it? What would you change about it if you could?

I'm still trying to decide how I would answer those questions...

Comments

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is a huge topic.

No shit.

The main reason I did it as a question. I'm having a lot of trouble teasing out my own feelings about it.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

It probably doesn't help that the answers to these questions change from day to day, or sometimes several times within the same day.

I'm still thinking about these questions. I feel very antagonistic towards my body a lot of the time, as if I want to punish it for not being "perfect" and for not responding how I want it to, and then I catch myself and realize how fucking unhealthy that is, and then I want to pamper myself physically. Kind of atoning for having been so angry at myself earlier.

I'm still working through a lot of stuff.

Yoga helps, and so does ballet, in that they give me opportunities to be surprised and impressed by what my body can do.