Body Image: Stories about physical appearance
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, both our stories are about how we see our bodies and the often complex relationship we have with them.
Part 1: With the looming possibility of a double mastectomy, Connie Henderson considers her options for reconstruction.
Part 2: Growing up Dhruti Shah struggles to accept her dark body hair.
Connie Henderson lives in Vancouver, Washington where she practices law with her husband Paul and son Jordan. Her practice focuses on representing people who have been injured as a result of medical negligence, which is probably the only reason she is alive today.
Dhruti Shah is an award-winning journalist and freelance wordsmith. She's been a local newspaper chief reporter, a BBC journalist, a social storytelling specialist and a lot more. She's worked and studied across the UK, in the US and in Thailand. Her debut book Bear Markets and Beyond: A Bestiary of Business Terms won Short Business Book of the Year at the 2021 Business Book Awards. She's had her poetry and short stories published in various collections. She is also an independent consultant, an accredited relational dynamics coach and has a background in OSINT investigations. She has four global fellowships, including an Ochberg Fellowship with the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma. She's a Trustee for the charity The John Schofield Trust and an Advisor to the Museum of Colour.
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| 0:45.1 | Welcome to the story clutter, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm your host, Misha Gayevsky, and this week our stories explore the often complex |
| 0:53.8 | relationship we have with our bodies and how we perceive them. |
| 0:57.1 | I personally have a love-hate relationship with my body, pretty much like any woman in North America who grew up looking at fashion magazines in the 90s. |
| 1:05.4 | But the science behind our personal mental representation of ourselves is fascinating. |
| 1:13.1 | While some of it has to do with your general physical appearance, aka body size and shape, it actually goes so much deeper than that. |
| 1:18.9 | How you see yourself doesn't always necessarily have any relation to how you actually look. |
| 1:24.1 | Research has found that personal body image is subject to all kinds of distortions. |
| 1:28.9 | Things like the attitudes of your parents, your emotions, and sociocultural contexts all play a role in how you see yourself in the mirror. |
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