Stop Erasing Yourself from the Picture
How many memories have we removed ourselves from because we did not like how we looked?
We take the photographs. We capture the birthdays, the holidays, the ordinary afternoons and the people we love. But when it is time to step into the frame, we hesitate. We hide behind the camera, move to the back or promise ourselves that we will take more pictures when we feel thinner, younger or more confident.
This episode is an extension of my essay “I Was There Too.”
It is a conversation about the quiet ways women erase themselves from their own lives and about what those missing photographs may mean…
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