23/11/2021
Holidays can be a stressful time for everyone.
It's important to continue supporting your menstrual health during this time but it can be challenging.
Being around family and friends can bring up some difficult emotions and conversations. Discussions about your weight, their weight, so and so's weight loss and diets may come up. For a lot of you, you know this is an inevitability.
You can't control what others say and do but you receive it and try to set up some boundaries.
Tips to setting boundaries:
1. Ask that these topics not be discussed around you, share how it makes you feel
2. Leave or exit conversations when these do come up
3. Remember that your feelings are valid.
4. Journal and work through your emotions related to conversations that occur
5. Know that these types of comments are often projections from others who have a poor relationship with their own body. They have also been steeped in diet culture for years/generations.
Letting go of dieting and diet culture is a process. It's challenging. And that's ok. Prepare yourself but also give yourself (and your family) compassion along the journey.
Does this resonate with you? Any other tips for boundary setting around the holidays? Drop 'em below 👇🏽
