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Real Talk: My Body Shaming In The Mirror

14 January 2018
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I’ve been thinking about how many times a day I would look at a body part of mine in the mirror and berate myself.
Lifting up my top and wishing I had a different shaped stomach. Stalking photos and criticising them for hours.
I feel so sad that I spent most of my life body hating rather than body loving.
As a young teenage girl, I wish I had someone guiding me and reminding me to stop striving for perfection. To know that what I was born with is beautiful, it’s enough and perfection isn’t the goal.
Why was I striving for perfection? Where did this come from? I still wonder. I think it has to be pressure. The pressure that we put on ourselves to look a certain way – to be a certain way.
Can we start redefining what beautiful and healthy means? I think we can – and we must.
A couple of years ago I started redefining this. I realised that waking up and feeling good in my skin, having good energy, a good mood and being in touch with my body is what actually makes me feel good.
Being skinny actually didn’t make me love myself any more. I still self-berated and criticised, I didn’t feel any better or stronger in my own self.
So maybe it’s time to remove the pressure we are feeling and redefine what our definition of healthy and beautiful is for us – individually.
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