Do You Love the Skin You’re In?

Society creates the idea that body image is thought to be mainly a woman’s issue.  However, studies are proving otherwise.  When surveyed, men confessed that they, too, are equally unhappy with their bodies as women.  There’s a lot less research and discussion about men’s body negativity.  Men also feel pressure from social media to have a ‘better body.’  Society tells women to be thinner and men to be more muscular.  We must learn to stop the societal chatter.

We are only born into ONE body!

We are blessed with a beautiful body that is each individual’s responsibility to take care of.  Our health begins from the inside out.  Healthy, realistic body images begin with our thought life.  What story is being repeated in your mind about your body?  It’s easy for someone to tell you how beautiful/handsome you are, but it can be equally challenging for some to receive that compliment.  Being unable to accept the compliment may stem from negative comments made when you were a child, or the images of thin, fit (sometimes fake) bodies that are always before us on social media and advertisements. 

Taking inventory of these thoughts and feelings is the first step to overcoming and changing them.  Are you hearing the voice of the middle-school bully who called you names or the marketer who’s trying to sell you that weight loss aid?  Neither of them has your best interest at heart, nor do they even know the genuine, authentic YOU.

Replace those thoughts with healthy self-aspirations/goals.  If you want to make physical (or any other) changes, be sure they are based on a healthy, positive self-image.  You are fearfully and wonderfully made.  You are the only you on this planet. 

When Lizzo asks us, “Baby, how you feelin’?” … 

I want us all to be able to respond in the affirmative, “Feelin’ Good as Hell!”