Psychologist. Speaker. Researcher. Author. Host of Other People's Problems Podcast. PhD. #Spirituality #mentalhealth #embodiment #bodyimage #feminism
Sep 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Embodiment is an antidote to body image work (a thread).
body image as a construct emerged through Austrian psychiatrist Paul Schilder 1935. The definition highlights its limitations: “the picture of our own body which we form in our mind”. We all hold images of our bodies in our minds: some accurate, likable, unhelpful, stable and not
Aug 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Children who were never shown how to feel an emotion in their bodies from beginning to end become adults who are afraid a feeling will never end, and have developed strategies both conscious and unconscious to avoid them.
When these adults want to start feeling feelings again, bump up against feelings to big to avoid, or all the unfelt feelings start speaking up in different ways in the body to try to get our attention, that old fear of unending feelings can resurface.
May 5, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
What you are feeling is no more or less important than what anyone else is feeling. A thread on comparative suffering.
We have been struggling with how to make space for our pain, and others pain, based on their relative degree of awfulness. We have also been told that comparative suffering does not get us anywhere, so we should stop.
