Battling the Body
Given 45% of the population uses social media, body dysmorphia is a daily burden that is almost inescapable when you are at your most vulnerable. She feels isolated in a world where image is an obsession and society provokes you to feel insecure in your own skin. She doesn’t see what others see when they look at her, she is paralysed in her version of herself.
Social Media and the Feeling That Things Could Always Be Better Than They Are - are we perpetrators as well as victims?
I have a horrible feeling that somehow, no matter where I am or what I’m doing with my life, I will never be satisfied. Someone will always be one step above me, living a life I would die for or having the ideal body that is miles from mine.
Saying Goodbye to the Life Thief
I hadn’t heard of the term ‘Diet Culture’ until fairly recently. I had no idea how deeply ingrained it was in my own life, my behaviours, and my thoughts until I started following body positive Instagram accounts and first discovered the term