Checking in weekly with your body image can help you feel less overwhelmed and may even help you spot positive or negative patterns. Let’s do this!
No matter how you answered, kudos for taking the time to notice how you feel. Next question…
Having a small, easy action item helps you learn to take care of yourself and your body image. Ready for your last check-in question?
This week, notice if checking in with your body image helped you feel more empowered.
Scroll down & hit play to do a quick relaxation & breathing prompt with me and listen to this week’s body image lesson.
This week, let’s apply the theme of AWE to our body image work.
“May you see the sublime in the everyday. May you live in wonder. May you pause to notice miracles.”
Practicing awe doesn’t mean forgetting or betraying all that’s happening in the world right now. We can experience moments of deep awe alongside moments of deep grief, confusion and worry. It’s important to allow for a variety of human emotions. Allowing for emotions that might feel like they’re highly contrasting helps you build flexibility, a skill that’s useful as you do body image work.
Did you know that according to all known laws of aviation, a bumble bee should be too fat to fly? Yet, we see these fluffy, bear-like insects fluttering around us all the time - pollinating, napping, and being cute.
That’s one of my favorite fat-positive nature facts. It fills me with curiosity, delight and awe. What else are fat bodies capable of that the laws of science