Episode 222 Being real about all body movements

Today’s episode is a solo episode and I chat all about body movements! Now look before anyone @s me this subject was hard for me to talk about. Mainly because growing up I was told I wasn’t allowed to have a positive or negative feeling about my body as I was “skinny” therefore I did not have any body dysmorphia 😏 ok And that’s one of the parts of these movements I find are red flags. Telling someone they cannot speak because they have a different body than you. I worked very hard in this episode to acknowledge that I have one experience and there are many others who will have different ones. The projection that happens sometimes while talking about body sizes is a little crazy and an area I think we can all self reflect. “Beauty standards” exist because we live in them. We blame outside sources for our body hate but at the end of the day, if we keep living in them… aren’t we to blame? Perhaps there’s internal work we have to do here before blaming everyone around us for our personal hatred. Like the body neutrality and positivity movements share, we are so much more than our bodies. The focus should be on one’s ability, kindness, generosity and character not what size they are. I am well aware that there is hate no matter what size you are hence the creation of these movements. I am grateful these movements started to bring light to all areas of body shaming. It should happen ever. And I think the only time body size should matter is when said person is clearly in medical distress and that is hard to know judging from the outside. So I think we keep calling out the red flags to all sizes of the scale here as well as celebrate the green flags at the same time. Which I hope came through in this episode. We all have commonality here. Lack of self confidence, inner self hatred and at the end of the day, most of us have had comments on our bodies, good and bad. And that can fuck you up! But we work internally to not react to others opinions because they are just like stink stars. Everyone has one, it’s nothing special ❤️