The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first
A flower won't open if I yell at it and say “Bloom!
Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.
Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.
If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.