my therapist challenged me to do some body work.
look at yourself in the mirror and love yourself...
well I could not do that...so instead I tried at night in the dark to really think about my body instead of saying I hate my body that way it is....
I started to think about parts of my body that I love. I started with my findger nailsand then my fingers and then my toes, as I thought about each body part I gently massaged each part and it felt good.
while I was doing this I was able to find other areas that I loved like my ears and my toes and ankles and wrists and forearms the smoothness of the skin I love and it felt great to lightly touch/massage each area.
there was no judging because It was dark and jeff was asleep. it was very helpful in my body image stuff/work. Then I naturally went on to apologizing to my different body parts that I have abused over the years.(all 10 of my fingers have had bandaids on them before they all healed just one cuticle has any signs of damage)
It was very affirming.
I would encourage this...I think alot of us have body image stuff going on.
bizi