Jun 24, 2018 | Body Poems
MY MARRIAGE…TO MY BODY “Most of us are going to have 2 or 3 marriages or committed relationships in our life, And some of us are going to do it with the same person.” Esther Perel I’d say my husband and I are in our 3rd marriage to each other. We’ve been married for...
Jun 10, 2018 | Body Poems
SUMMER SHAME It creeps up with talk of bikini bodies It shows up with moms hiding behind kids in the vacation pics It stays invisible but deeply felt in the resistance of “I don’t want go to the beach or that pool party, with everyone in their bathing suits.”...
May 27, 2018 | Body Poems
I FEEL FAT Sitting in my therapist’s too-soft sofa I’d exclaim with deep despair. I feel fat And patiently, week after week she’d say: If you weren’t feeling fat, what would you be feeling? It took me months to understand the question. What do...
May 20, 2018 | Body Poems
DID YOU DIVORCE YOUR BODY? What I want to say to you if you divorced your body somewhere along the way and don’t know how to reconnect. I want to say… I get it. I divorced my body early on. I was 9, when my body started to feel like it wasn’t a...
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