EMDR with issues of appearance, aging, and class

Appearance matters. Culturally-defined “attractive” people are more likely to get the job (Gilmore, Beehr & Love (1986), the raise (Heilman & Stopeck, 1985), the mate (Jonason et. al.,  2015) higher status friends, and better grades (Begley, 2009) than less attractive people. Attractive children receive more attention, especially from strangers. Grade school children become more aware, each year, about the norms of appearance in their schools: what race, body-shape, grooming, clothing, and facial structures are acceptable and what is shunned. Regional, social class, family and gender mores dictate appearance parameters. And ubiquitous media images create often impossible-to-meet expectations of female and male beauty.