02/09/2025
Over the weekend I met up with friends.
The very first comment they made about their summer wasn’t about joy, adventures, or rest — it was about how much weight they’d gained.
When their eyes turned to me, I said:
“I actually don’t have a scale… so that’s not something I measure.”
And it’s true. I haven’t stepped on a scale in 5 years.
When I began healing my relationship with my body, I realized how much of my worth had been tied to a number. A number that decided if I felt “good” or “bad,” “disciplined” or “failing,” “enough” or “not enough.”
But my body is not a performance KPI.
She’s not here to be judged, reduced, or ranked.
And yet, as women, we’ve been conditioned to measure ourselves by appearance instead of presence, by how we look rather than how we live.
Letting go of the scale has given my body something a number never could:
🌿 the softening of my breath instead of holding it in fear of “what the number will say”
🌿 the ability to savor food without the background noise of calculation
🌿 the sense of grounding that comes from listening to sensations of fullness or lightness inside of me rather than outsourcing that knowing to an external device
🌿 the freedom to move for pleasure, for release, for joy — not for “results”
It’s allowed me to return to an inner compass: safety, respect, and reverence.
And no number could ever measure that.
✨ Imagine if we all stepped out of numbers and into knowing?
What would change for you if you let go of the scale?
