We saw an interesting movie the other night put on by the Sunshine Coast Film Society. It’s called What 
About Me?, I was told that it was shown at the Vancouver Film Festival recently, but hasn’t been released into theaters here in Canada yet. The website for What About Me says it received Grammy nominations and has also been a TV series.
It’s hard to say what it was about as it covered such a huge variety of topics…but I’ll try. The film “aims to reveal how we are all connected through our creativity and beliefs, but most of all through our madness”. Music, from countries around the world, was not only the underpinning, but a prominent theme in it.
The writers emphasized how we’re all connected regardless of who we are or where we live. The emphasis was, appropriately, put on countries all around the world, as we in North American & other Western societies are such a small part of the world really (we just tend to think we’re the center of the universe).
Conditioning and the limitations we put on ourselves (or are put on us by society) was another theme. That resonated with me of course, as that’s what I harp on all the time with my emphasis on stressful, limiting, and negative beliefs.
The movie emphasized how limited and often uptight we are in our thinking about our bodies and our sexuality. We’re all heavily influenced by what goes on around us, and by advertising.
The best line in the movie for me was about women and beauty products. The speaker was a hispanic man, and his words were translated. He appeared to understand marketing and women’s issues very well. I’ll have to precise what he said as I can’t find my rough notes!:
- The emphasis on selling beauty products separates women from the inside of themselves. Then they can’t be in their power
I thought this was very well put…brilliant in fact. If we are separated from the inside of ourselves, then we’re only connected with the outside of ourselves!
Emphasis on the external is, of course, a benchmark of our society. We’re all products of our culture, and it takes a lot of thought, determination and conscious action to begin to step outside of this ‘indoctrination’.
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On another note, Susan Schachterle is launching her new book, The Bitch, The Crone and The Harlot: reclaiming the magical feminine at midlife on October 28th through www.Amazon.com. For that day only she is giving away many bonus gifts. Her own website is, The Bitch, The Crone & the Harlot.
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Body Image continued
We saw an interesting movie the other night put on by the Sunshine Coast Film Society. It’s called What
About Me?, I was told that it was shown at the Vancouver Film Festival recently, but hasn’t been released into theaters here in Canada yet. The website for What About Me says it received Grammy nominations and has also been a TV series.
It’s hard to say what it was about as it covered such a huge variety of topics…but I’ll try. The film “aims to reveal how we are all connected through our creativity and beliefs, but most of all through our madness”. Music, from countries around the world, was not only the underpinning, but a prominent theme in it.
The writers emphasized how we’re all connected regardless of who we are or where we live. The emphasis was, appropriately, put on countries all around the world, as we in North American & other Western societies are such a small part of the world really (we just tend to think we’re the center of the universe).
Conditioning and the limitations we put on ourselves (or are put on us by society) was another theme. That resonated with me of course, as that’s what I harp on all the time with my emphasis on stressful, limiting, and negative beliefs.
The movie emphasized how limited and often uptight we are in our thinking about our bodies and our sexuality. We’re all heavily influenced by what goes on around us, and by advertising.
The best line in the movie for me was about women and beauty products. The speaker was a hispanic man, and his words were translated. He appeared to understand marketing and women’s issues very well. I’ll have to precise what he said as I can’t find my rough notes!:
I thought this was very well put…brilliant in fact. If we are separated from the inside of ourselves, then we’re only connected with the outside of ourselves!
Emphasis on the external is, of course, a benchmark of our society. We’re all products of our culture, and it takes a lot of thought, determination and conscious action to begin to step outside of this ‘indoctrination’.
********************************
On another note, Susan Schachterle is launching her new book, The Bitch, The Crone and The Harlot: reclaiming the magical feminine at midlife on October 28th through www.Amazon.com. For that day only she is giving away many bonus gifts. Her own website is, The Bitch, The Crone & the Harlot.