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You can Love your Body with these 4 Simple Tricks
Because hating our body is a full time job, and there are better ways to spend the time
In the past twelve months, I have spent a lot of time thinking about the relationship between women and their bodies in this day and age. What is extremely unfortunate, is that women accept to deal with body insecurities as if they were part of their lives.
Being unhappy with our bodies and having a disordered relationship with food has become the norm.
It is almost impossible to find a woman that hasn’t dieted, fasted or that haven’t spent way too much money or time to shed the extra kilos trying to match an unrealistic ‘standard’.
But the scary part is what happens when the curtains come down, inside a woman’s mind; the unsettling feeling of not being good enough, the bitchy conversations with her own self, the setting of unrealistic goals, the lying, the pressure, and the list is so, so long.
And because women nurture kids, kids tend to look up and imitate their mothers; and that is why this insane cycle goes on and on.
The ideal female figure has never been static. Whatever is today’s it-girl shape is just what has bubbled up in the cauldron of popular culture. And those physical…
