It struck me.

At the height of dealing with an eating disorder, I had become disconnected from so many things. Numbing out to hunger cues, often numbed me out to internal cues in general.

Furthermore, rules around movement and food so often become a life script when struggling with disordered eating and being a slave to diet culture. And in a culture so immersed in unhelpful messages around food and our bodies, I wonder how many of us experience this to varied extents, eating disorder or not.

Melissa KucharskiMay 10, 2021dietculture, eatingdisorder, eatingdisorders, dieting, diet, melissajohnson, impossiblebeauty, soulcare

The Water We Swim In

It’s the water we swim in, an “Image is everything” and a “just do it” world. Pay attention to the outside, “perfect the package” so to speak.

The hard part about cultural norms is that that they feel, well, normal. They are our constant companion and, so, they become our reality. So, when we see a certain body type or “flawless” look upheld in media and advertising, it’s assumed that that’s the “norm” for women in the world; that’s what our bodies or skin or faces “should” look like.

Melissa KucharskiJuly 28, 2020beautyculture, dietculture, thewaterweswimin, eatingdisorders, disorderedeating, daughts, daughters, raisingdaughters, bodyimage, truebeauty, beauty, impossiblebeauty