Body Insecurities

After years of having insecurities I can tell you that negative thoughts about my body haven’t gone away. My stomach is soft after having 3 babies, and I have stretch marks everywhere. I don’t love these things. At all, actually. But I no longer think of them as the weakest parts of myself. I no longer have urgency to change them, and I refuse to apologize for having a body that looks like I’ve lived in it.

I don’t have a hot stomach by society’s beauty standards. But you know what I do have that’s hot? Grit. Empathy. Honesty. A ridiculously loud laugh. A cheez-it problem. A sense of self-worth. Cooking skills. Stupid jokes. Loyalty. A willingness to always try new things.

And yet somehow women have been convinced that their value and their fitness comes down to having a lean frame. Dumb.

Changing your body might help to make you feel more confident at first, but it doesn’t give a lasting impression. Know what does?

💅Following through with the promises you made for yourself

My confidence has been slowly built up by shifting focus to things I can actually change … things that are more productive than picking apart my body. And now we are actually getting somewhere 🫶🏻