Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from May, 2012

Am I safe yet? Kill the world! [A new mom's struggle with the comparison games]

.....ok ok. So maybe my title is a bit extreme, but that's how I sometimes feel when it comes to my physical beauty slash security in my physical beauty. Today I am going to talk about what I think universally all women struggle with or at least think about at some point in their lives.  There are many little avenues our "logical" minds try to lead us through, and I am going to attempt to address these avenues.  With lightheartedness.  I like lightheartedness, and this is a heavy issue, so...we need some balance here, peeps. In my last blogpost I talked about security as an idol (feeling secure) and how confessing can seem to attack that security idol.  Wheeelllps....physical beauty, especially in this American culture, is yet another threat to that security idol.  I won't go at length about where my real security lies, b/c I did that in my last post. Anyway. Moving forward. Answer me this :  Be honest. Have you ever found any satisfaction when ...