On my facebook page I posted this link yesterday; it's a poster contest for the National Organization of Women celebrating "Love Your Body Day". I thought some of the posters were really interesting. This site (which is one part gossip, one part fashion, one part women's interest issues) offered a follow-up blog to that contest and in it encouraged its staffers and readers to participate in 'Love Your Body Day' by writing short apologies to themselves for ways they haven't loved their bodies. Here is the specific entry about apologies: body apologies. Some of the responses are silly, or flippant. But some are touching and humbling. What would you apologize to your body about? Eating cheeseburgers? Cutting? Hating your nose? I think the exercise is a good one for us all, especially if we push ourselves to apologize about something specific. Think past "I'm sorry for thinking that we're fat" and more to something like "I'm sorry I let my obsession with how fat I felt ruin our senior prom".
Anyway, that's just a thought (and a challenge). I won't leave you to do it alone, though. This is one of my many body apologies to myself:
Body, I'm sorry I spent so, so long denying the fact that you are beautiful, lovely, and strong.
self-love, in all its forms, i wish for you,
becca
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