MotherWoman Group Discussion: When they hang all over us.

By Liz Friedman

We are going to start putting up conversations from our MotherWoman groups on our blog so that we can continue them on line.  Here’s the first.  Let me know what you think.

In a recent MotherWoman group we began our conversation focused on our relationship to our bodies, to the ongoing “lookism” (obsession with looking like young beautiful women that we are surrounded by all the time in our culture) and how that impacts us individually.  Of course, this went in many many directions, from our relationships to health, our bodies, our sexuality, to our relationships with our sons and daughters and gender stereotypes and the limitations that are experienced.  There were true confessions and real frustrations expressed, as always.