LOVE YOUR BODY!!! 🏆But how?? 🤷🏼♀️
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I’ll be honest here….
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-💖Hearing someone tell me to love myself doesn’t make me love myself any more than I already do. –
-💖Reading a caption about somebody’s insecurities doesn’t make mine go away. –
-💖Listening to somebody tell me “it’s gonna be ok” doesn’t make things “ok”. –
-🔴While I’m on board with all of the positive self talk, and I encourage it, sometimes it’s just NOT THAT SIMPLE! –
-💙For years, I picked myself apart in front of the mirror. If it wasn’t one thing, it was another. I’d venture to say: It takes a heck of a lot of strength and confidence for a woman to stand in front of a mirror and genuinely say to herself “I love my body just the way it is RIGHT NOW, and there’s nothing I’d ever want to change”🤔. Well guess what? That’s ok! we’re human, we don’t conform, we tend to overthink! Here’s what really needs to change: our FOCUS! it’s not about our shape, weight, or muscle mass, it’s about how we PERCEIVE ourselves and how much we let our imperfections AFFECT us! 💖 I had a major transformation and I can’t even really show it to you guys! It’s not physical, it’s mental. I don’t even know when or how it happened, but it happened! I first started to exercise because I wanted to “lose weight”. Right now, I don’t work out because I’m trying to make my body “perfect”(whatever that means…). I’m not trying to prove a point, compete, or show off my “progress”. I can honestly tell you I work out because I LOVE IT! I feed off of the strength, adrenaline, and endorphins! It gives me joy!
⭐️My point: if you want to exercise, do it for your health and that feeling! Don’t “just” do it to alter your shape! That’s a slippery slope and a nasty mind game. I realize it’s 100% easier said than done, but I will forever preach this: Yes, learn to love your body! but first and utmost: pay attention to your HEALTH, both mental and physical! THAT’s something that can’t be photographed, but you’ll carry it with you every day ❤
