It’s called “Embrace” and it’s a very special documentary, because it’s written and directed by a former competition bodybuilder, writer and journalist, Taryn Brumfitt . And what is it about? He talks about the fact that 91% of women fight every day with their body, they don’t accept it, they don’t love it, but on the contrary they accept to live a life of sacrifices and waste a lot of time behind diets and lifestyles that they have little or nothing of healthy . Finding a form of balance between us and our ideal as a woman is not only not easy, but it is a path full of pitfalls, in which if you are not careful enough and are not comfortable with yourself, you can lose health in everyone. the senses, both mentally and physically. Embrace as you can see from this trailer, it simply invites us not to consider the body as an enemy or an external envelope to be improved, but as a vehicle to live life fully and in happiness, without following stressful practices and listening to newspapers, magazines, sites and gurus

Taryn, who as a former fitness fanatic finds herself depressed and full of doubts, in Embrace travels a journey to discover the history of the lives of former models, actresses, but also of ordinary women with stories of physical problems and serious mutilations , who have decided to get out of the business of diets and the rhetoric of the body and the perfect appearance to find themselves, and accept themselves unconditionally. Unfortunately the documentary is not yet available in Italian, but it is worth watching this video in which Taryn herself undergoes a photo shooting (photo shoot) to then see the image of her manipulated through photoshop, here.  And, on the other hand, the various beauty and whitening filters that are on mobile phones and help us take beautiful selfies, aren’t they a simplified form of photoshop? In short, don’t we feel obliged to always offer an improved and somewhat plastic image of ourselves?