What's a "belly story"? It's a story about how we're valuing and revaluing our body's center. Here are a couple of examples:
In The Serpent and the Wave, Jalaja Bonheim writes that while she was shopping in a local market, a toddler approached her. Proudly patting his belly, he declared "I am me!"
Did you watch Wonder Woman on television back in the '70s? I missed that. But according to Michael Sims in Adam’s Navel, when Diana Prince changed into her Wonder Woman wardrobe, special effects showed a "cosmic force seeming to radiate outward from the vicinity of her navel."
What's your story?
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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About my belly... two amazing little people came from it, at least that is how I feel...but I kind of would like my flat belly back now...if they wouldn't mind?
Hmmm...many body image questions come to mind, as a relatively sedentary wheelchair user, my body and belly have taken their own shapes... makes life and clothes very interesting indeed...one day the pants fit, another shape shift...and not :)
Wow...now that I've really been thinking, I realize how muchbody image and shame are linked to those times when our bodies don't look as slim or fit as others...if our bellies are more round thasn flat, more ample and soft, than a six-pack...
Hmmm...I find that I am shape shifting, my belly is becoming less prominent, stronger, still very sensual and sensitive, paying more attention to breathing deeply and releasing all the tension that I seem to hold in my navel area.
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