Tuesday November 18, 2008
Category: Finding Ways to Be FearlessFearless About the Body: The Comparison Game
Because I am raising two teenage daughters in the image-conscious city of Los Angeles, I have become more aware than ever of the games we play with our self-esteem. As women, we tend to compare ourselves with the flawless images we see in popular culture, against whom we will never measure up. This only perpetuates our fear and self-doubt. Instead of playing the comparison game, why not tap into our empathy and gratitude and look up to our real modern-day heroes: the woman who lost her leg fighting in Iraq, the women who are running marathons to raise money for breast cancer research?
Who do you see in your family, your school, at work, or in the news that you admire? Try being your own hero for a day and describe how you feel about yourself at the end of it.
--Arianna Huffington
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Comments
This is so easy to say, yet so hard to do. My problem is I compare my worst attributes to someone else's best ones. Of course that won't add up, but that's how the subconscious works, I guess.
Posted by: Tarah | October 29, 2007 6:33 PM
Hi, I am new to this and I wanted to see if you could give me some advice on not being afraid, it's like I am David, and I am going against Golith the giant, and I am helpless in this, and I juat need a friend to talk to about fear; I am so fearful of this big step that I have to take, but do not know how. Please talk to me, and comfort me.
Susan Butler
Posted by: Susan | November 4, 2007 9:18 PM
I agree we need to learn to cherish our self and not worry about what others think and feel about us. This is the year of the women - coming into self and carrying for oneself needs. Fear nothing and no one if you have faith.
Posted by: vmjleo48 | April 7, 2008 5:39 PM
I agree we need to learn to cherish our self and not worry about what others think and feel about us. This is the year of the women - coming into self and carrying for oneself needs. Fear nothing and no one if you have faith.
Posted by: vmjleo48 | April 7, 2008 5:41 PM
Please let me address, "As women, we tend to compare ourselves with the flawless images we see in popular culture, against whom we will never measure up" with this question - I find that *we* tend to do this because the men in our lives Want the flawless images they see in popular culture and we (women) think that we are supposed to do everything we can to service and please men... does anyone agree?
Posted by: Cully | April 7, 2008 8:36 PM
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