How much of us is real?
The Flesh Illusion is a haunting exploration of beauty, pressure, and the cost of perfection.

Dripping with sarcasm, sorrow, and defiance, the song peels away the filters and reveals the soul underneath — aching, fading, but still shining.

It’s part satire, part lament, and fully human.

🎶 For fans of: Lorde, Marina, Empathy Test, Aurora

📀 Track 9 of 12 – The Flesh Illusion
🎧 Genre: Dark Pop / Synth Noir / Body Commentary
🎙️ Artist: Arkhameus
🌍 Album: Reconnect
📅 Release date: May 10, 2025
🔗 https://solo.to/arkhameus

🌌 Listen on all platforms:
→ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/1d5wb5U7sVLj5NZn9cWnDr
→ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Arkhameus?sub_confirmation=1

🎬 Explore the albums:
→ Reconnect (SoundCloud Album): https://soundcloud.com/arkhameus/sets/reconnect
→ Echoes Through Time (SoundCloud Album): https://soundcloud.com/arkhameus/sets/echoes-through-time
→ Lifetrail (SoundCloud Album): soundcloud.com/arkhameus/sets/lifetrail

The Flesh Illusion

Dr. Michelle May is a former family physician and a recovered yo-yo dieter. Like many people in our current food-abundant, diet-obsessed culture, Michelle struggled with disordered eating and body image. From middle school to medical school, her unhealthy relationship with food was her secret, but in her medical practice, she discovered she wasn’t alone! Many of her patients were trying one diet after another, not realizing that restriction drives cravings and bingeing. It’s a frustrating process she calls the “eat-repent-repeat cycle.”
 
After healing her own relationship with food, she founded Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training (https://amihungry.com/). Over 800 wellness professionals have been trained to offer Am I Hungry? mindful eating programs worldwide. She’s the award-winning author of the Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat book series that teaches mindful eating to help individuals resolve mindless and emotional eating and senseless yo-yo dieting to live the vibrant life they crave. (Download chapter 1: https://amihungry.com/chapter1
 
She’s an Associate Professor at Arizona State University where she teaches Mindful Eating. She also taught a masterclass for the Calm app. She co-authored a peer-reviewed paper on weight-inclusive care (https://doi.org/10.1002/ncp.10885).
 
Website: https://amihungry.com
Download chapter 1 of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: https://amihungry.com/chapter1
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmIHungry
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amihungry
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MichelleMayMD
 
I’ll look forward to hearing more about the event on 4/24.
 
Eat Mindfully, Live Vibrantly!.
Michelle
 
Michelle May, M.D., CSP*
480 704-7811 ext. 101
mmay@amihungry.com 
www.AmIHungry.com
www.MichelleMayMD.com
 
Founder of Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training, and author of:
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: A Mindful Eating Program to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Students
 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmIHungry
Instagram: www.instagram.com/michellemaymd
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amihungry
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/MichelleMayMD
Press Room: http://amihungry.com/press-room/
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/amihungry/


Michelle May, former family physician and a recovered yo-yo dieter

This audiobook is about how cancer and its treatment may affect a person’s body image. 
It explains how cancer treatments can change the way the body looks, works or feels. 
This audiobook is for anyone who is worried about changes to their body caused by cancer or cancer treatment. It suggest things people can do to improve their body image, and how to get further help and support.

Track 09 - Sexuality, intimacy and body changes

Track 15 - Other ways can help you

Ever felt like you’re holding it all together on the outside... but slowly losing yourself on the inside?

This week on Fitter Food Radio, Matt and Keris dive into what really lies beneath the stress, overwhelm, and self-sabotage so many of us face. Especially when we’re constantly stuck in doing mode.

We explore how it’s possible to become completely disconnected from your needs, emotions, and identity when life becomes all about work, caretaking, productivity, or simply surviving the day.

We chat about:

- The warning signs of emotional disconnection (and why they often show up as bloating, burnout or insomnia)

- Why body image struggles are rarely about the body (and what they are trying to tell you)

- How to stop outsourcing your worth and start rebuilding from the inside out


As always, we’d love to hear what resonates – drop us a line at info@fitterfood.com.

P.S. Keris is running a free Body Image Workshop on Wednesday 16 July at 7pm - it's a practical session to help you explore how your beliefs and emotions are impacting your health and self-worth. You can sign up for free here: https://fitterfood.com/body-image-freedom-workshop-16-07-25/

212 - When You Lose Yourself to Keep Everything Else Going

Imperfection isn't real anyway 𓂀

[Verse 1]
You're rusting my confidence
Distorting everything I see
Whenever I try to think positively
You're always coming back at me
Well I'm afraid I am not ornamented, gold plated
I'm afraid that you'll judge me

[Chorus]
Mirror, mirror
Why can't I see clearer
That it's all for someone else's gaze
Mirror, mirror
Tell me I can disappear
Let me walk through you and be erased

[Post-Chorus]
But the mirror on the wall
Can't help you through it all
You might as well move and mould your face
Maybe if you decorated
You might feel less deflated
Money could be your saving grace

[Verse 2]
I'm not lonely, I see my body
And know that my loved ones care
But not for what I see reflected
In my self-conceived one-way mirror
But I'm afraid of my identity
Send help for me
I'm afraid you'll perceive me

[Chorus]
Mirror, mirror
Why can't I see clearer
That it's all for someone else's gaze
Mirror, mirror
Tell me I can disappear
Clear me out, let me be erased

[Post-Chorus]
But the mirror on the wall
Can't help you through it all
You might as well move and mould your face
Maybe if you decorated,
You might feel less deflated
Money could be your saving grace

Mirror

Do you love to look in the mirror because you are thankful for being alive, and the mirror proves it? OR do you look for the imperfections and complain about them? How to love your body on the outside because you are thankful to be alive, and how to create a life you love… 
www.maxfitnesscollege.com


Do you love your body or do you hide from it

Hiding in your clothes? Or Love your body? How to love looking in the mirror because you love your body and how to be lean, fit, strong and healthy for a lifetime
www.maxfitnesscollege.com


Hiding in your clothes Or Love your body

Your Body…Love, hate it, ok sometimes?
Are you changing what you can, loving what you cannot change, and can we be beautiful on the inside regardless of what we look like on the outside?  
Could our inner beauty shine on the outside?
www.maxfitnesscollege.com


Your Body…Love it or hate it

A reflection on self-image, discipline, and the quiet tension between improvement and acceptance.
How do we learn to inhabit our bodies rather than perfect them?

The Myth of the Perfect Body - Episode 2

🌌 Arkhameus creates immersive musical experiences that bridge past, present, and future—fusing vibrant Synthwave, nostalgic City Pop, and powerful Cinematic Pop into emotionally resonant stories. His album "Echoes Through Time" invites listeners on reflective, energetic, and introspective journeys, exploring themes of destiny, memory, hope, and the profound significance of our choices.

Influenced by artists such as The Midnight, FM-84, Gunship, and Timecop1983, Arkhameus captures life's emotional depth, vibrant optimism, and cinematic intensity. Step inside the sound and explore the timeless echoes of your own story. 🚀🎶

Fitter Food Radio is a to the point, no BS fortnightly podcast series presented by the authors of "Paleo Primer” - Matt Whitmore and Keris Marsden. It’s dedicated to health, fat loss, nutrition, training, performance and other lifestyle factors all in the name of helping you become awesome. All this along with a bit of banter, good laughs and stories of our own personal journeys we aim to change the quality of as many peoples lives as possible. Both coffee lovers hugely passionate about real food, daily happiness, helping others and thriving in life with the odd bit of ice cream and bacon here and there.

The Health Design Podcast brought to you by the Journal of Health Design(www.journalofhealthdesign.com). Features interviews with the world's leading health design experts including clinicians, designers, patients, authors and researchers. Better health by design.

Whatever cancer throws your way, we’re right there with you to offer physical, financial and emotional support.

Reflective micro-episodes on integration—between control & surrender, strength & tenderness. New drops weekly. Listen on Spotify / YouTube → linktr.ee/adifferentcurrent.

Songwriter / Arranger / Singer / Producer / Flautist / Pianist
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all music is completely original and self-produced

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