Comments on: Back in Shape http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:47:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-282 Anonymous Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:56:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-282 (quoth the hoser who dursn't speak her own name, --anitra sorry about that.) (quoth the hoser who dursn’t speak her own name,
–anitra
sorry about that.)

]]> By: Anonymous http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-281 Anonymous Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:35:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-281 do you know, i have never sought or been much interested in the skinny-model or body-builder figures, and motherhood was a welcome transition to something my body was longing for. i didn't know very much about motherhood at the time, but i knew enough instinctively to gape at my mother when she told me (a few days after elijah was born) that she wore her pre-pregnancy clothes right after i was born. i loved my belly, and i do still, what's left of it. but another thing i see in mothers is a curving of the shoulders, a closing of the chest, a hunching -- that is so common, sometimes slight and sometimes pronounced, and it makes me want to cry. it is like a denial of the self, a restriction of the heart. in my libra-esque-equivocation, i wonder if that is borne of my own brand of self-denial, but of this i am doubtful. it takes courage to see the true face of the Mother, and i think that takes openness. do you know, i have never sought or been much interested in the skinny-model or body-builder figures, and motherhood was a welcome transition to something my body was longing for. i didn’t know very much about motherhood at the time, but i knew enough instinctively to gape at my mother when she told me (a few days after elijah was born) that she wore her pre-pregnancy clothes right after i was born. i loved my belly, and i do still, what’s left of it.

but another thing i see in mothers is a curving of the shoulders, a closing of the chest, a hunching — that is so common, sometimes slight and sometimes pronounced, and it makes me want to cry. it is like a denial of the self, a restriction of the heart. in my libra-esque-equivocation, i wonder if that is borne of my own brand of self-denial, but of this i am doubtful. it takes courage to see the true face of the Mother, and i think that takes openness.

]]> By: Laura http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-280 Laura Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:17:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-280 have any of you seen Shape of a Mother (http://shapeofamother.blogspot.com/)? Your post belongs on there Laureen. that blog is so inspiring for thoseof us who think we're the only ones who look this way, feel this way about our bodies, etc. sweet post, thanks!! have any of you seen Shape of a Mother (http://shapeofamother.blogspot.com/)? Your post belongs on there Laureen. that blog is so inspiring for thoseof us who think we’re the only ones who look this way, feel this way about our bodies, etc. sweet post, thanks!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-279 Anonymous Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:57:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-279 Hey, like I've always said, "I am in shape. 'Round' is a shape. I am not amorphous." Ciao, Bubba Hey, like I’ve always said, “I am in shape. ‘Round’ is a shape. I am not amorphous.”

Ciao,
Bubba

]]> By: Kelley http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-278 Kelley Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:29:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-278 I *so* needed to read this! Thanks for sharing this wonderful insight. I *so* needed to read this! Thanks for sharing this wonderful insight.

]]> By: Anonymous http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-277 Anonymous Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:59:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-277 I forgot, elise@skudvision.com or http://www.livejournal.com/users/eliseeagle I forgot, elise@skudvision.com or http://www.livejournal.com/users/eliseeagle

]]> By: Anonymous http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-276 Anonymous Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:58:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-276 Hi! Come and visit me sometime at the Benicia Capitol, I'd love to see you! Elise Hi!

Come and visit me sometime at the Benicia Capitol, I’d love to see you!

Elise

]]> By: Mama Chaos http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-275 Mama Chaos Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:39:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-275 Awwww Awwww

]]> By: Dana http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-274 Dana Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:53:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-274 Boy I wish I could look at my body that way. Tim says he likes me "squishy." Yet, I'm on that climber for 5 miles each day trying to get rid of the squish. Boy I wish I could look at my body that way. Tim says he likes me “squishy.” Yet, I’m on that climber for 5 miles each day trying to get rid of the squish.

]]> By: SFWriter13 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/2006/10/04/back-in-shape/#comment-273 SFWriter13 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:54:00 +0000 http://theexcellentadventure.com/elementalmom/?p=83#comment-273 "Out of the mouths of babes" just seems so fitting here . . . :) Once again, thanks for sharing! “Out of the mouths of babes” just seems so fitting here . . . :)
Once again, thanks for sharing!

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