Tag: belonging

  • Healing through belonging

    We are social beings; we all need to belong. We literally get ill from loneliness, and we heal by reconnecting to others. I have experienced this phenomenon many times in my own life, as I am sure, most of us did. Even the most introverted of us, those who balance their energy by hiding away…

  • Our wish to be thinner…

    For many of us, the wish to be smaller starts early on in our lives as we internalize diet culture’s messages that link thinness to worthiness. It is not the only wish we have of course. We wish to be rich. We wish to be curvy or sexy or muscular, all depending on our gender…