Body Image Study Group Recordings

The Body Image Study Group has ongoing calls where people can focus on their issues around Body Image in a safe setting. We tune into any blocks, beliefs, or experiences that may be preventing the flow of self-acceptance in your life. All members are welcome.

Body Image Study Group 2009-01-11
- It won’t let me move foward until I am clear
- Identify and finding my own voice
- Who will I be without the weight?
- How to deal with the attention
- Eating because of stress
- Not good enough
- What’s keeping me stuck?

Body Image Study Group 2009-01-25
- Dad wanted a boy
- Confused and not sure how to get love
- I had to be different to get Mom’s attention
- I want to be loved for who I am
- Dating again, not in my 20′s
- Why would someone want me?

Body Image Study Group 2009-02-08
- I’m just too weak
- I can’t be strong enough to have independence
- My body feels bad, afraid I’m getting worse
- Trapped in family life
- Needing tenderness and loving care

Body Image Study Group 2009-04-05
- Feeling safe in my body
- Self esteem issues
- Being invisible
- Immune system compromised
- Wrinkles.

Body Image Study Group 2009-04-19
- Nervous about being on a call.
- Can’t stand my stomach.
- Lectures on weight from Dad.
- I don’t want to pass this on to my son.
- Fear of getting fat.
- My dad called me an ugly child.

Body Image Study Group 2009-05-03
- I need to be perfect to feel ok about myself
- It’s not safe to feel too happy
- Can’t trust anyone, it’s not safe
- Nice things will be taken away
- Is it safe to be a powerful, beautiful woman?

Body Image Study Group 2009-05-17
- I have to keep busy so I don’t feel lonely.
- Mom said I was awkward and aloof.
- Changing how I see myself.
- Always being left out, rejected.
- Feeling of not belonging.

Body Image Study Group 2009-05-31
- I’m afraid to move outside my comfort zone.
- My father ridiculed me for “showing off”.
- Trusting my body guidance.
- Would like to release this belly fat.
- I don’t trust myself to choose appropriate clothing.

Body Image Study Group 2009-06-14
- Tightness in chest, need to say the right thing!
- Feeling off-center, lost hearing in one ear.
- Tapping on the Princess Bride, letting grudges go.
- Body is just not getting better!

Body Image Study Group 2009-06-28
- My body won’t do what I need it to!
- No one understands.
- Stomach not responding, feelings stuck inside.
- I don’t matter.
- Not able to move.

Body Image Study Group 2009-07-12
- Losing weight is hard!
- Not feeling attractive at my age.
- Fear that this stress will make my CF worse.
- Shyness getting in the way.

Body Image Study Group 2009-07-26
- It is not safe to celebrate.
- Whole family reinforces that.
- Body symptom, changing it to safe and competent.
- Losing weight is hard to do.
- They called me names and it hurt.

Body Image Study Group 2009-08-09
- Stress and worry in my stomach.
- Accepting my body as it ages, wrinkles and sagging skin.
- I want to feel attractive.
- Low self esteem and energy trapped in fat cells

Body Image Study Group 2009-08-23
- I hate the fat on my stomach.
- I’m afraid of dying.
- I don’t want to have to wait for my body to heal.
- Irritated with my body.

Body Image Study Group 2009-09-27A
- Eating food that are bad
- Asking my body for help
- Embarrassed about my teeth and gums, am I still lovable?
- Still eating more than I want
- Connection through food

Team Call 2009-10-11 Body Image Study Group
- Gaining weight, feeling unlovable
- Feeling unloved at birth
- Learning to relax
- Remembering to tap
- Unfriendly relationship with body

Team Call 2009-10-25 Body Image Study Group
- My image of myself as a sick person
- Becoming whole, dealing with spitefulness
- I can’t accept myself at this size
- Weighing myself to decide my worth
- Afraid to be beautiful
- Making clear decisions about a medical procedure

Team Call 2009-11-08 Body Image Study Group
- My body doesn’t like me
- It’s hard work to pay attention to my body
- My dad was a racoon
- Why won’t my body work with me?
- Burning anger in my wrists
- I want to be understood

Team Call 2009-11-22 Body Image Study Group
- I love my hair, I hate my hair
- Low self esteem
- No choice, can’t get enough rest
- Being sick is the only way I can set boundaries
- Eating to punish myself
- Not safe to feel good

Team Call 2009-12-06 Body Image Study Group
- Having trouble listening to my body
- How do I trust my body?
- Can I fix this?
- My beautiful skin
- Remaining tension in my gut about losing weight
- I hate the fat on my body
- What are my hands trying to tell me?

Team Call 2009-12-20 Body Image Study Group
- I want to feel more attractive
- Sad scared energy causing me to eat too much
- Who would I be without this problem?
- Anger in my liver
- Inner child looking for safety
- Embarrassed when people notice I’ve lost weight

Team Call 2010-01-10 Body Image Study Group
- I’m doomed to bad health
- I assume I’ll be fat
- If I’m powerful, I’ll be alone
- Ashamed of my body

Team Call 2010-01-24 Body Image Study Group
- Craving for emotional freedom
- Critic coming up about “my looks”
- I can’t stand my own voice
- I thought I was fat at 15!
- I buried my self-esteem issues in my gut
- I refuse to exercise while I am still grieving
- I feel confident. ( = NOT!)

Team Call 2010-02-07 Body Image Study Group
- I want to appreciate the positive more
- How can I accept my body?
- Frozen and dissasociated
- I can’t present until I lose weight!
- Fertility at 42.

Team Call 2010-02-20 Body Image Study Group
- Conflict around food
- To eat or not to eat, that is the question!
- I need the comfort but am scared I’ll get fat
- Appreciating myself when I am not perfect

Team Call 2010-03-14 Body Image Study Group
- Constant low level tension in stomach
- Storing all my feelings in my stomach

Team Call 2010-03-28 Body Image Study Group
- Very judgemental toward myself
- I can’t accept my body until it’s perfect
- Cast painful, feeling trapped
- Pain back in my shoulders

Team Call 2010-04-11 Body Image Study Group
- Using my weight to punish my parents, they deserve it!
- I feel ugly on the inside
- Ancestral anger
- High BP, cholesteral, worried about a heart attack
- Rocesca, I can’t face it
- My skin color is a disadvantage
- Changed my eating, my body is the same

Team Call 2010-04-25 Body Image Study Group
- I want to stop forcing myself
- How can I be more at peace where I am?
- Why I gained weight…
- In touch with physical trauma feelings
- Victim thinking
- Lots of emotions coming up

Team Call 2010-05-09 Body Image Study Group
- Sinus infections and smoking
- Belly protecting me
- I’m not good enough
- Not motivated to exercise
- Self-sabotage around eating
- Self conscious about my legs
-My legs are afraid of moving forward!

Team Call 2010-05-23 Body Image Study Group
- Self-judgements
- I judge my weight
- Letting inner self shine
- Contrast and sabotage
- knees flaring up
- Pain in the butt

Team Call 2010-06-06 Body Image Study Group
- Too many diets, my body doesn’t want to be forced.
- Why bother losing weight, I won’t be able to afford new clothes.
- I want to be myself, but I need his appreciation
- I can’t be taken seriously if I’m ill

Team Call 2010-06-20 Body Image Study Group
- Shaming and self-judgement
- Worried people will think I’m ugly
- Holding on to dull, boring, obese lifestyle
- Sabotaging in the evening, the kitchen is closed
- Always feeling wrong

Team Call 2010-07-04 Body Image Study Group
- Changing distractions from food to internet
- Afraid eyedrops for surgery will give me a reaction
- My inner sabotour

Team Call 2010-07-18 Body Image Study Group
- Whole lot of grief… waiting for the dam to break
- Listening to the body
- Getting to peak of letting go
- I can’t accept my body/emotions the way they are!
- Overwhelmed lately
- I need to keep them happy (even though the situation is anything BUT happy)

Team Call 2010-08-01 Body Image Study Group
- Rewarding self with desserts
- Feeling fat
- Breaking diet before bed
- Calming self down
- Not feeling respected

Team Call 2010-08-29 Body Image Study Group
- Tooth ache, lots of fear
- Eye problems, pressure in my life
- I was supposed to guess when to be responsible and when to be a child
- Not safe to love, its not safe

Team Call 2010-09-12 Body Image Study Group
- Conflicts with smoking
- I don’t want to take care of myself, it doesn’t matter
- Never making any progress
- Don’t trust my body
- Lucky to be alive
- Afraid to be alone

Team Call 2010-10-03 Body Image Study Group
- I’m not good enough
- Hatred of specific body part
- Pain and sickness, fear in my body
- I destroyed myself, bulimia for 15 years has ruined my digestive system
- Stomach ache from speaking up and being heard

Team Call 2010-10-17 Body Image Study Group
- Mad at body for being sick, no tears allowed
- No room for pain or weakness
- What if nothing changes when I lose weight?
- Trapped and afraid back then

Team Call 2010-10-31 Body Image Study Group
- I feel fat and ugly.
- Blaming the pain.
- I don’t know my body any more.
- Angry and betrayed by my body.
- Water in legs.

Team Call 2010-11-14 Body Image Study Group
- I’ve betrayed my body.
- Sweets craving.
- My body hates me, I hate my body.
- Getting older, you’re not what you were.
- I need to be an impossible case to be special.

Team Call 2010-11-28 Body Image Study Group
- Blaming myself for ruining my body.
- I want to be invisible.
- Everyone knows more than me.
- People judge me for my weight.
- Not allowed to flow.

Team Call 2010-12-19 Body Image Study Group
- Am I worth that much work?
- Taking my confidence to the next level
- Sometimes we have to live with a long-standing fear
- Struggled my whole life to lose weight
- Keeping my world small
- The sides of struggle

Team Call 2011-01-02 Body Image Study Group
- I have to get it just right
- I’m not getting it
- Cranky body, doesn’t want to participate
- Depression, we loved the other sub
- I’m not ok to feel good. If I’m happy something bad will happen

Team Call 2011-01-16 Body Image Study Group
- I want to support my body so I don’t need medication.
- Food and social interaction mixed together.
- Surgery tomorrow, feeling nervous despite all I’ve done.
- I don’t want to get attached.
- Low energy!
- Constipation.

Team Call 2011-02-13 Body Image Study Group
- Always fighting to make up for being powerless
- I thought they traded me in!
- I HATE my body
- Enjoying the process of being pregnant
- What will they think?!

Team Call 2011-01-30 Body Image Study Group
- “Being thin” for me is like having armor… pregnant = vulnerable
- Irritated, body betrayed
- Every time I look in the mirror I see fat
- My “extra fat”
- Not motivated at ALL to go to the gym… take baby steps instead
- Shoulders in the mirror

Team Call 2011-03-06 Body Image Study Group
- How many years have I wasted?
- Fear of fat
- Taking care of myself while Dad is here
- Moving energy in my foot
- Who would be attracted to me?

Team Call 2011-03-20 Body Image Study Group
- I must dress to be acceptable to others
- My inner children are fighting
- Rushing through my meals
- Feeling safe expressing myself
- Angry and Guilty

Team Call 2011-03-20 Body Image Study Group
- I must dress to be acceptable to others
- My inner children are fighting
- Rushing through my meals
- Feeling safe expressing myself
- Angry and Guilty

Team Call 2011-04-03 Body Image Study Group
- I need to try harder!
- When I feel threatened I critizise
- It took a long time to get here
- My stomach is my weak spot, my achilles heel

Team Call 2011-04-17 Body Image Study Group
- I feel vengeful and unkind
- Rosacea breaking out
- Don’t deserve to be happy
- Lower back ache
- Heaviness in heart

Team Call 2011-05-08 Body Image Study Group
- Feeling guilty and bad about my body
- Thinking about visiting mom and eating more
- Not smart enough to learn that
- Mom said I was disgusting and no one would ever love me
- Female problem
- Angry and unheard about safety

Team Call 2011-05-29 Body Image Study Group
- Skin condtion making me feel embarrased and disgusting
- Use food to distract me from boredom
- Angry at God
- Using my body as an excuse to avoid relationships
- Waiting for biopsy results, body feeling anxious

Team Call 2011-06-12 Body Image Study Group
- Fluid/Floating
- Fast food craving… poor growing up
- Don’t tell ME how much I can eat!
- Move connection into my body
- Working of rosacea
- Body ills

Team Call 2011-06-26 Body Image Study Group
- They all laughed (sailing trauma)
- Girding my loins for going home, highest weight
- There is nothing I can do about my skin
- My father said I wasn’t his child, want to be my own person

Team Call 2011-07-17 Body Image Study Group
- Worried about stress reactions
- Pressure in jaw
- I think it’s going to be the same, but I’m different!
- Constant threat
- Clenching fists all the time
- I feel depleted and out of energy

Team Call 2011-07-31 Body Image Study Group
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