2024-07-14
36 分钟Hello and welcome back to advice session, a series here on anything goes, where you send in your current dilemmas or anything you want advice on.
And I give you my unprofessional advice.
Today's topic is body image and self love.
A tough one.
Listen, I already told you that my advice is unprofessional, so hopefully you're going into this taking my advice with a grain of salt.
But I ask you today to take my advice with an even larger grain of salt.
Because out of all the topics I've ever discussed on advice session, this is my most challenging subject.
Personally.
This is the area that I think I struggle with the most on a personal level.
This is the area that I think I have things the least figured out.
So I'm almost hesitant to give advice in some ways because, like, has any of my own personal advice worked on me?
Yes and no, right?
But I think this is such a big challenge for majority of people, especially now with the Internet.
Here I go again, blaming everything on the Internet.
But we live in a very complex time when it comes to body image because of the Internet and because of technologies that have been developed to allow us to alter our bodies either digitally or physically in the real world, we live in a very complicated time.
And it's harder than ever, I would say, to accept oneself for who they are.
I think we've always compared ourselves to others, probably since humans were created, but I think it's progressively gotten more challenging to accept oneself as technology has developed.
I feel like with every technological advanced, it becomes harder to accept oneself for who they are, especially one's physical body.
And listen, I've come a long way, you know, I would say my body image challenges started at around ten or eleven, when I started to compare myself to my cousins and the girls at school, and I would compare my body to theirs.
And then when I got social media, it got so much worse.