The Yoga of (My) Body Hatred – an Elephant Journal Piece

I’m about to say a whole bunch of things you’re not supposed to say out loud… and show you a picture of my stomach.

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I watched The Sexy Lie: Caroline Heldman at TEDxYouth@SanDiego. In this TEDx talk, Dr. Caroline Heldman talks about what sexual objectification is and why it’s not empowering. She holds my attention as she talks about some pretty obvious ways that our culture objectifies (mainly) women—96 percent of sexually objectified images are women—and that it’s bad for us, but as interested as I am in her views, for the first few minutes I’m mostly thinking, duh.

I have no idea, however, that she is about to completely wreck my day (or my week, or maybe the rest of my forever)….

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