Glad you wrote about this. Thank you. I want to write about self image, aging bodies, et al + grief but haven't been able to yet.
So many of us were raised to understand life as a constant struggle to look like _____ on whatever TV show or movie. I hate that I spent all those years learning that, and that I might have to spend all the remaining years undoing it, even while my face distorts and bloats due to gravity and hormone loss and absent collagen and whatever else.
I love that you include reader entries --- it's just so great. Somehow it felt like all I could do this time was pitch this comment in. Thanks again for what you do.
Thank you for writing on this topic. Even with 21 years of recovery, I STILL struggle with this. <3
Glad you wrote about this. Thank you. I want to write about self image, aging bodies, et al + grief but haven't been able to yet.
So many of us were raised to understand life as a constant struggle to look like _____ on whatever TV show or movie. I hate that I spent all those years learning that, and that I might have to spend all the remaining years undoing it, even while my face distorts and bloats due to gravity and hormone loss and absent collagen and whatever else.
I love that you include reader entries --- it's just so great. Somehow it felt like all I could do this time was pitch this comment in. Thanks again for what you do.
I caught this late, but are you still looking for anonymous submissions? I just happened to write something today on the subject.