You’re positive about other people’s bodies because you’re a good person
You’re horrible about yours because that’s what you’ve been taught
Your whole life you have been conditioned to think that there’s only one kind of body you should have, one kind of body that deserves love and happiness
Every drop of advertising and media has seeped into your subconscious, telling you the shape of your shadow is undesirable, because when you’re dissatisfied you’re easier to sell to.
It’s a trick
If everybody ate the same foods and moved in the same way, their bodies would still be different.
The people commenting hate all over the internet are full of a lifetime of anti fat brainwashing, just like you. They just happen to be not fat. But I’m pretty sure they have friends or family who are. I hope they see their comments. I hope they see their hearts. I hope they heal.
That’s not my job, if people are so resolute in their opinion that they’ve decided to type it out on the internet for all to see, then I’m not going to change their mind responding with my research, my knowledge, my lived experience.
Go through your social media, remove accounts that are aspirational. Favourite the ones that are inspirational. Follow people who look like you. Look in the mirror with love. Dress in clothes that fill you with joy. You need to look at your body more than anyone else’s. So that your body becomes your new normal.
Your heart will change, your soul will change, your mind will change, allow your body to do the same.
We have this one life, to find our joy, I’m not wasting it worrying about numbers and measurements, how palatable I am to others, the opinions of people I don’t love and don’t love me for another second 🧡
Credit: Taynee on Facebook
