Welcome to Body Compassion! I am so glad you are here. In the time since the last blog post, body compassion has been growing behind the scenes of this blog. The body compassion scale has been translated into multiple languages and studies have been completed around the world, in Portugal, Korea, China, Italy, and Iran,…
Body Compassion: Cultural Behavior Change via Embodiment of Psychological Flexibility This 5 minute IGNITE! presentation is from the early development of the academic construct of body compassion. It was given in June 2014 at the World Conference of the Association for Contextual Behavior Science in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The presentation title/focus was specifically tailored to…
Mother’s Day is being celebrated today in the USA. This day conjures the full spectrum of experience and emotion for both mothers and children—which covers every single person in the States (everybody was birthed). A wonderful celebration for many to acknowledge and thank their Moms for the gift of life, support and care—and for mothers…
#nofilterDare to live life unfilteredMove beyond the deceptive safety of a sepia blurred imageInsteadsoftening edgesin contrast with sharp, clear view of subjectexposed with lens wide openWhat isAs it isNo filter#fearless © Jenn Altman, 2017 Poem written during a three-day retreat in Lexington, Kentucky (May 2017). Merging an interest in photography with the warrior view of…
Leaning in to the very specific microcosm of the story of my plane encounter with the older southern gentleman* presents a view of the three factors of body compassion identified in research1,2: Defusion – the ability to experience one’s body from the stance of an observer, rather than as the body itself. Why yes southern…