SELF BY CHOICE
You & Your Body. The neuroscience of body image, self-worth and identity.
Understanding body image as an embodied highly biased perception and focusing on transformation.
Self by Choice is a research led project with the aim to offer a platform to reach out, share and strengthen an ever-growing voice through the lens of art and creativity.
The aim is for the audience to see for themselves the impact of the choices of thoughts and emotions they make; how these trigger internal neurochemistry, physiology and belief formation; and ultimately, to look at the brain’s inherent “tools” to implement change.
We are aware that “beauty standards” are subjective, variable, relative, and unrealistic; but we feel and act differently. We know it, but still struggle to change our biased internal views. Why?
Parts of the brain are talking or not talking to one another while the so-called ‘happy hormones’ are being triggered with conflicting messages of pleasure and reward, perseverance, euphoria, belonging, feeling accepted, respected, liked, confident, … ; decisions to be made and act upon with a malfunctioning self-defence mechanism that affects our mind-body-emotions connection.
ROSA PASCUAL
Founder and Director
She is a socially engaged multidisciplinary visual artist who knows first hand about body image issues from a very early age which has had an immense impact in her life, feeling within herself and relating to others.
There are many people affected by this issue! It doesn’t differentiate between age, gender, cultural background or financial status. It can be very debilitating and mostly lived in secrecy while trying to hide it and show up otherwise.
If you wish to know more about the project, share or be part of it, please contact Rosa Pascual at info@selfbychoice.com
To find out more about her work as an artist you can visit.