How do you love your body?

A woman who had struggled with yo-yo dieting called me in a panic and asked “How can I love my body?” In exploring this question, she shared that she hated all of her features. Was she willing to focus on each body part and practice loving it? Our conversation reminded me that loving your body is an inside job. When we refuse to listen to our body and seek to control it with rigid diets and exercise programs: Let’s get that body into shape! … we become divorced from our body and our Self.

How can you love your body? Trusting it to communicate its needs and wants?  If we are open to listening, our body will guide us towards healthy eating and supportive exercise. It teaches us to tune with its unique rhythms. Then, instead of being at war with our body, we are more likely to be able to love it. The question is…. Are we willing to trust the wisdom of our body and relinquish “control?”

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