The phrase "a self image that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing perceptions or beliefs about oneself, particularly in contexts related to psychology, self-esteem, or personal development.
Example: "She struggled with a self image that was heavily influenced by societal standards of beauty."
Alternatives: "a self-perception that" or "an identity that".
You have met a foe in combat: perhaps a timid mind that doubts, -- "can I do it" -- perhaps a body that aches with a cut to the right and a lunge to the left, perhaps a self image that says: "I once looked sleeker in such short and revealing clothes".
Read "Psycho-cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz a small inexpensive book that teaches how to acquire a self image that will help you succeed in any field.
Those experiences create preferences, beliefs, and a self image that adheres.
It's a self-image that is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.
Both Canada and the US have a self-image that is creative and forward-thinking, yet we are being left in the dust by the rest of the world when it comes to energy's evolution.
"I still see myself sometimes as 'little Alex' who never thought he would achieve anything," he says, recalling a self-image that was the legacy of a childhood in care.
Quite apart from the money, she works for a company with an intractable sense of its own "transgressiveness", a self-image that sits awkwardly alongside the wealth of its founders and the sometimes moony-eyed devotion of its staff.
But because I refuse to believe that anyone can be as bizarre as Paltrow presents herself, I suspect she is engaging in a giant satire on the world, creating a self-image that is as much a parody of the modern-day celebrity as William Boot was of the 20th-century journalist.
Chris's fierce efforts at self-liberation, and a self-image that's deeply imbued with the memory of violence, make for a rhapsodic, visionary, yet harshly implacable drama.
To Weiner, Don will always be unhappy because he cannot settle on a self-image that allows him to find contentment.
The discussion of face in the sociological literature operates on the assumption that face is an outcome of how a person is regarded by others in formation of a self-image that is an unintended consequence of their behavior and circumstance.
