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💗Body positivity sounds great in theory, and it certainly started out with the best of intentions, but… (and it’s a really big butt)
Loving your body can be a very tall order, especially when you consider that many of us are made to HATE our body so much that we try countless ways to change it.
We are convinced to starve ourselves, restrain our waists, work out so hard we deplete our energy, and if that doesn’t work, we’re taught to hide our bodies with black clothes or shapeless fabrics.
Maybe before you can get to a place of positivity about your body, it might help to work toward a middle ground: neutrality.
What if instead of measuring your worth or success in your body, you recognize that your body isn’t an ornament anyway, and the way that it looks means nothing about you?
Whether you think your body is beautiful or ugly, it is currently functioning (for the most part, probably) and that’s sort of its whole job. This expectation that it has to look a certain way is entirely invented by society and irrelevant to its job.
Those thoughts alone could be a major mental shift. How do they sit with you?
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