Identity Expression and Self-Esteem / Body-Esteem
The body is interactional in our daily experience with ourselves, our environment, and with others. How our bodies move, interact, and appear to others is informed by personal identity factors (such as race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, sexual orientation, gender, etc.). These factors usually influence our self-esteem. Through our body and its movement, we come to be known, and hopefully understood, by others. Our body image stores information about how we internalize rejection or acceptance.
When issues of race, gender, culture, sexual orientation or other identity factors become important for a client to explore in therapy, I have the skills to help them unpack the complexity of identity. Familial or societal oppression can cause silence, struggle, or conflict within our authentic selves — and trauma to our self-esteem. When a client struggles with self or body image injury, an integrated body-mind-movement intervention is the best means of addressing these disturbances. Our interventions use multiple body-based approaches to help clients develop and embody their authentic voice and increase their confidence and trust in themselves and others.
When working with people who are from a different race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or religious/spiritual beliefs, we are sensitive and prepared to understand the world from their perspective. As a strength-based body therapist, I am also size positive (affirming of all body sizes and weights), sex positive (affirming of sexual expressions that are different from the ‘norm’), and affirming of ‘alternative’ relationship expressions & configurations.
As Black therapists, we are committed to continually examining our embodied experiences and combining that personal awareness and knowledge with our clinical expertise to understand how cultural oppression might hinder self-confidence and self-acceptance -- particularly for Black, African, African-American, Afro-Latin@, but also for Native Americans, & Asian and Asian-American or other minority groups.
As body-based therapists, we understand how the body has been affected by racism and the internalize thoughts of shame that are trapped in the body image and influence one’s feelings, behavior, or choices about:
1) body features (light/dark skin; being “too dark”), hair texture or length (having “nappy”, “good/bad hair”), eyes (“too narrow” “too Asian”) nose (“too big” or “too ethnic”), etc;
2) movements (taking up “too much space”; “too aggressive”; etc);
3) choice of clothing, jewelry, etc;
4) voice quality (being “too loud and ghetto” or “”too quiet” and not assertive or emotional);
5) cultural or class shame (“too ghetto”; “too stupid”; “always late—on ‘CP’ time”)
If you experience thoughts like the one's above (and/or worst) a body based approach can help you to restore body-esteem, body-acceptance, and body-pride. Our interventions also help you to understand how these kind of thoughts influence your selection and success in relationships, parenting, academic pursuits, and career.
The body is interactional in our daily experience with ourselves, our environment, and with others. How our bodies move, interact, and appear to others is informed by personal identity factors (such as race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, sexual orientation, gender, etc.). These factors usually influence our self-esteem. Through our body and its movement, we come to be known, and hopefully understood, by others. Our body image stores information about how we internalize rejection or acceptance.
When issues of race, gender, culture, sexual orientation or other identity factors become important for a client to explore in therapy, I have the skills to help them unpack the complexity of identity. Familial or societal oppression can cause silence, struggle, or conflict within our authentic selves — and trauma to our self-esteem. When a client struggles with self or body image injury, an integrated body-mind-movement intervention is the best means of addressing these disturbances. Our interventions use multiple body-based approaches to help clients develop and embody their authentic voice and increase their confidence and trust in themselves and others.
When working with people who are from a different race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or religious/spiritual beliefs, we are sensitive and prepared to understand the world from their perspective. As a strength-based body therapist, I am also size positive (affirming of all body sizes and weights), sex positive (affirming of sexual expressions that are different from the ‘norm’), and affirming of ‘alternative’ relationship expressions & configurations.
As Black therapists, we are committed to continually examining our embodied experiences and combining that personal awareness and knowledge with our clinical expertise to understand how cultural oppression might hinder self-confidence and self-acceptance -- particularly for Black, African, African-American, Afro-Latin@, but also for Native Americans, & Asian and Asian-American or other minority groups.
As body-based therapists, we understand how the body has been affected by racism and the internalize thoughts of shame that are trapped in the body image and influence one’s feelings, behavior, or choices about:
1) body features (light/dark skin; being “too dark”), hair texture or length (having “nappy”, “good/bad hair”), eyes (“too narrow” “too Asian”) nose (“too big” or “too ethnic”), etc;
2) movements (taking up “too much space”; “too aggressive”; etc);
3) choice of clothing, jewelry, etc;
4) voice quality (being “too loud and ghetto” or “”too quiet” and not assertive or emotional);
5) cultural or class shame (“too ghetto”; “too stupid”; “always late—on ‘CP’ time”)
If you experience thoughts like the one's above (and/or worst) a body based approach can help you to restore body-esteem, body-acceptance, and body-pride. Our interventions also help you to understand how these kind of thoughts influence your selection and success in relationships, parenting, academic pursuits, and career.
Would you like to rid yourself of these negative thoughts?
Experience how effective a body-based intervention is to your journey and recovery.
Book a free consultation or appointment today!
Call 267-368-6630,
or connect with me online by clicking the Inpathy logo below
Experience how effective a body-based intervention is to your journey and recovery.
Book a free consultation or appointment today!
Call 267-368-6630,
or connect with me online by clicking the Inpathy logo below
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https://portal.inpathy.com/directory/7cac0b8f-7bc8-4e05-b72f-5e91e341f148
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