From Object to Inhabitant: Deepening Your Body Relationship

Body Wisdom
Written By Sarah Devi | Somatic Educator and Practitioner

How many times have you stood in front of the mirror cataloguing your flaws?

Fixating on the shape of your nose, assessing the prominence of your pores, lamenting the lack of thigh gap, deploring the shape of your belly?

How many times have you centered your focus on the physical, on your attributes and appearance, your overall aesthetic, with the intention of examining, measuring, or evaluating?

How many times have you felt the urge to:

Appraise every blemish, every perceived imperfection?

Check from every angle?

Suck in your stomach?

Put on the shapewear?

Apply the concealer?

Cover up the wrinkles?

Rethink your outfit?

Size up what needs fixing, adjusting, tweaking?

Plan out the tiniest of alterations?

Contemplate the necessary procedures?

How often is this your experience? The rating and ranking and constant comparison? The emphasis on weight, proportions, size, tone?

Judging your worth based on what's reflected back to you?

Performing mental gymnastics to do your utmost to be presentable, attractive, pretty?

Cringing at anything that looks less than perfect, out of place?

Sarah Devi | Somatic Educator and Practitioner

While I've been following my curiosity to learn and study all things women's health and wellness for the past decade, I write, guide, and create primarily from my own lived experience as a woman in this world.

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