Tag: body image
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Good for Me… At Least for this Moment
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. So this guy is good for me, at least for this moment. I have no idea where it will go or for how long but as I’ve said before, I’m just enjoying it and accepting the gift that it is to me for…
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Taking Off the Weight, Unawares
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom. I was up way too late last night. Well past 2 a.m. Shopping. In my closet. I found some great skirts, too. The tags were still on where I’d bought them two years ago. Man, I had a blast! About two weeks ago, I…
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Body Positives: Getting Personal but Keeping It PG
Me, late 20’s. New mom. In a world where we, if no one else, know all the millions of physical flaws we carry on our bodies and are reminded of our inadequacies in almost any women’s magazine, is it possible to love your body? Don’t we women constantly look for what’s wrong instead of what’s…
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Body Image: Are You a Temple or a Tool?
Sitting outside my doctor’s lab and waiting my turn to “donate” blood, I was struck by a conversation I overheard in which the nurse explained that she’d seen everything and it was “all natural.” What bothered her patient about body image didn’t bother the nurse at all. She said that she could easily see past…
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Enjoying My Flaws
I have strawberries. There’s a medical term for it, but I don’t remember it. [added: cherry angioma] All I remember is that my lovers have always referred to them as “strawberries”—either with great fascination or great disdain and precious little in between. They’re tiny scarlet freckles, no larger than the size of a pinhead, and…
