Tuesday night I posted a picture with the caption, “Summer mode means pre-bedtime dips in the pool that totally count as baths.”
To be honest, I didn’t love the picture of me at first but I’m trying to show real pictures of women in real life, and couldn’t stop smiling at how happy Jade was. Summer time means pool baths and It also means it’s media’s favorite time to chime in on health, wellness, and getting your body ready for summer 🙄. For almost a year, I’ve been on the cusp of “getting it” when it comes to self-acceptance and love, and positive body image. Of course I still struggle with what media is constantly trying to tell me about how my body looks. Or my favorite, what they are trying to sell me to change my body to look a certain way. However, there isn’t a single product I could buy, or change I could make to my body that could buy me this moment with my daughter giggling in the pool before bed trying to keep her toes out of the cold water. This isn’t my mom bod, it’s just me in my body at age 28. It looks different than it did at 16, 26, and it will look different at 36. Because that’s what bodies do. They change. Sometimes they are smaller, bigger, less-toned, firm...you get it. Sadly, we are always and only praised when we get smaller. I hadn’t considered that some of the weight people gain is exactly what their body needed to heal (from trauma, restrictive eating, disordered eating, and ridiculous lies masked under achieving wellness”) until I came across different resources for anti-dieting. Women, I promise you can be in a swim suit this summer and love the moment you are in and the memories you are making. It’s hard, and a daily (hourly) process of replacing lies with your truth about your body. Trust your truth, it will heal you.
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