09/15/2021
How do you talk to and treat your body?
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Do you ignore its pleas or listen to what it needs and wants? Do you wish it were thinner or younger or prettier?
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From the time my body started developing through puberty, I started treating it harshly.
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The changes I was experiencing and the stories I was being fed about how bodies should look made me ashamed of it.
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I was a real mean girl to it.
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I often said (aloud and in my head) mean and hurtful things about it.
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I certainly didn’t support it with good food, rest, or gratitude.
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I told it that it was bad unless my numbers, like weight, matched my expectation.
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I fully admit these things without judgment. I was doing the best I knew how to do then.
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This was how my dance teachers and my mom told me to do. I didn’t know any other ways.
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But then I learned better, so I decided to do better.
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Opening up to the idea that my body and I needed to update our relationship did not happen overnight.
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But little by little, I started realizing that my relationship status with my body needed to change if I wanted to truly say hurray inside, outside, and underneath.
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Over time, I realized that my body had been providing small signs along the way of working with it, supporting it, and co-existing peacefully with it.
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When I didn’t listen, those small signs and whispers became loud screams.
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Things I thought my body rebelling against me were actually my body trying to get my attention so that we could heal, repair, and move forward in a loving manner.
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The truth is that our body is our partner in this human lifetime.
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So if we’re in this together, we should make the most of our relationship.
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If you’re reading this and thinking, “omg I’ve been so mean to my body,” or “easy for you to say, your body is banging!” I want to ask you to drop the judgment.
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And whatever you decide to do, please be gentle, compassionate, and open to the possibilities.
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We are each on our own journey, and all it takes is one step after another to get started💗
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⬇️Comment below and let me know if you find this post helpful🥰
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XOXO
Miyu (Me-You)
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🙋♀️How to heal your relationship with your body is something I teach in my program.
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If you'd like to learn more, click the link below and check out my "Happy Weight and Body 3 Months Group Coaching Program"
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