01/16/2025
Posted • 🙏🏼 This is why I say, so often, that we need to stay close to ourselves and — with help and support as needed — work to find safety in being *in* our body. Because our culture will stop at nothing to keep us feeling like we are separate from our body, teaching us it’s merely a thing we need to control.
Body image healing is about many things, and it will never be the same person to person. Identities impact this. Trauma impacts this. Environment, medical conditions, culture. Yet for all of us, at some level, healing requires peeling back the layers of conditioning and unlearning the belief that our worth is tied to how we look. It’s about rejecting the idea that our body is an offering to the world — something to perfect or fix to gain approval, love, or belonging.
In the face of that, it’s about remembering who you are at your core—a person of inherent value, creativity, kindness, and resilience.
When we remember our bodies are vessels for our magic, rather than measures of our worth, we free ourselves from the relentless pressure of diet culture and beauty standards. We can begin to live more fully, focusing on what truly matters: our relationships, passions, joy.
Healing isn’t linear, and the world will try to pull you back into old patterns. But the more you root yourself in this truth—that you are not your body but the magic it carries—the more grounded you become in your truth. Reclaiming this is an act of self-compassion, and a path towards collective liberation. When you decide your worth is not found in your appearance, you begin to see others differently, too ♥️
*Please remember that this is IG, not nutrition counseling. I am speaking in broad strokes, as I can’t capture every person’s lived experience or medical conditions in a post. ♥️
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