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Episode Overview
With summer coming, there are more opportunities for photographs and lots of women find they don’t always love the photos of themselves that are posted. This comes up a lot in the Healthy Habits Happy Moms community and Annie and Jen have information on why this happens and some helpful tips about what you can do about it.
- The mere exposure effect and why selfies are more familiar-looking
- Why we are more drawn to the familiar
- Moving past panic when you see a photo of yourself
- The missed opportunities of deleted photos
- Why you should keep taking photos
- How digital photography has changed our expectations of photos compared to when photography was less accessible
- Resisting the urge to “fix” ourselves based on one photo
- Managing expectations about not every photo being amazing
- Practicing self-compassion when viewing photos of ourselves
- How the image quality we see on social media adjusts our expectations of ourselves
- Expectation vs reality, how we feel when a photo was taken vs how we look in a photo and what happens when those don’t align
- Learning to respond rather than react
- Photographs as memories for our kids
- Keeping photos in defiance of beauty standards
- The impact of fatphobia on our willingness to share photos
- Not judging ourselves as a way to stop judging other women
- Normalizing aging by sharing photographs
- Maintaining perspective about how much we value physical appearance
- Deciding what you are willing and not willing to do to conform to beauty standards
Resources
- Episode 7: What is Fat Phobia & How It Hurts Women at Every Size with Bethany Bellingham
- Episode 8: Amanda Thebe on How to Navigate the Stages of Menopause with Confidence
- How to Not Hate Being Photographed – xoJane
Transcript
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