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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While sitting beside an ancient beech tree, the author questions: 'Why am I looked upon as vulgar and shameful, while time renders you, a tree, increasingly more beautiful We have both developed folds in our skin and gnarls in our limbs.'Utilizing her signature tapestry of nature-based symbology and arts-based practices, she invites us to transform our self-perception of aging: Elderly implies degradation and decay; Elder acknowledges the wisdom gained through life experience.We humans are storytellers. We express our memories and aspirations through our tales, written, spoken, danced, painted, or sung. We are hopeful for witnesses, for those our love stories, our formulas for resilience, and our dreams remembered, will inspire and guide.Women, silenced in Western patriarchal cultures, have swallowed their narratives. They have ingested the cultural mantra: Your voice does not matter. All women share some degree of silencing. Elder women are additionally unseen: Invisible and mute in a world where feminine beauty is ephemeral and gifted only to the young, aging women attempt to reclaim this fleeting treasure.This book, an inspirational offering to Elder women (and to the young women they will inspire), may provide an antidote to the Western patriarchal perspective that deems them irrelevant.Arts-based practices (dance movement, journaling, ritual, visual art, storytelling, and music) are within this volume, described for both individual and group application. The historical silencing of women is explored both as it applies to culture and to gender binarism.I Am Beautiful Elder: Transformative Practices for Wise Women has been described as an alchemical blending of poetry, inspirational practices, biographical narratives, and social psychology.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We live in a patriarchal world where women view themselves through the scripted lens of imperfection. Contemporary social media intensifies this message. Girls are bombarded with unnatural presentations of beauty, which they are told they will never achieve. Current research into the impact of social media, specifically Instagram and Tik Tok reveals its relationship to eating disorders and to other adolescent mental health identity issues. Transforming the perception of female identity in modern western society will require a deep cultural facelift as well as a celebration of that transformation. This book draws attention to the patriarchal mandates placed upon women during the 1960s. The author explores the combined impact which media and maternal influences had upon her adolescent identity development inclusive of anorexia. This volume includes two distinct parts: Part 1 ('She Speaks') the author's pre-adolescent memoir, and Part 2 ('They Speak') an exploration of historical, psychological, and social identity influencers as well as an arts-based workshop designed to empower adolescent girls. You the reader, may choose to first immerse yourself in the narrative (Part 1) or to stand back and get an overview (Part 2), prior to that immersion. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We live in a patriarchal world where women view themselves through the scripted lens of imperfection. Contemporary social media intensifies this message. Girls are bombarded with unnatural presentations of beauty, which they are told they will never achieve. Current research into the impact of social media, specifically Instagram and Tik Tok reveals its relationship to eating disorders and to other adolescent mental health identity issues. Transforming the perception of female identity in modern western society will require a deep cultural facelift as well as a celebration of that transformation. This book draws attention to the patriarchal mandates placed upon women during the 1960s. The author explores the combined impact which media and maternal influences had upon her adolescent identity development inclusive of anorexia. This volume includes two distinct parts: Part 1 ('She Speaks') the author's pre-adolescent memoir, and Part 2 ('They Speak') an exploration of historical, psychological, and social identity influencers as well as an arts-based workshop designed to empower adolescent girls. You the reader, may choose to first immerse yourself in the narrative (Part 1) or to stand back and get an overview (Part 2), prior to that immersion.…