4 Steps For Building A Lifetime Of Body Confidence
I love body image work. (whoa. never thought I'd say that :p)
And God KNOWS that I still have my own days where I feel "off" in my skin (welcome to being human ;)...
But thankfully they're far more infrequent- I have a different relationship with food & self-care, a deeper understanding of why the body discomfort is showing up + really solid tools to support these times now.
I explained a lot of this in the article- here's a little excerpt + the link to continue reading...
4 Steps For Building A Lifetime Of Body Confidence
When I was growing up, my family had a picture of me on our refrigerator door that always got a lot of comments.
It was a candid shot taken when I was around 6 years old, just after a swim meet. I was standing in my cap and swimsuit, one hand on my hip, the other on my chin in a contemplative, confident stance.
I love this picture. It captures me completely comfortable in my own skin, unconcerned with any of the world’s opinions.
Back then I was focused on having fun in the water, hanging out with friends and making it home in time to watch my favorite TV show at night.
As many of us experience, my intuitive inner confidence began to fade the older that
I became.
I wasn’t immune to the world’s expectations of women, nor did I brush off the comparison or comments that I began to experience.
Without even realizing it, I’d become a different version of myself by the time I reached 6th grade. Suddenly too self-consumed for my own good and hyper-fixated on pleasing everyone else around me, at the expense of my own body image.
Food and my weight became a coping mechanism to control as I navigated my teenage years into early adulthood, slowly eroding my hand on the hip, zero "F’s" approach to life.
By the time I reached 30 I was burnt out from disordered eating and began to do the deeper work around healing my relationship with food.
But body image?
That was a whole other can of worms....
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