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How to Love Your Body Even When You Hate the Way It Looks<\/h1>\nHow to Love Your Body Even When You Hate the Way It Looks<\/h1>\nI was speaking with one of my wonderful and beautiful clients about all her body has been through. Between childhood abuse, chronic illness, fertility treatments, multiple children and a life-long eating disorder- her body has been through a lot.<\/p>\n
I was sitting there in total awe of her, thinking how damn strong she was and how amazing it was that she was still alive.<\/span><\/p>\n I was overcome with this love and gratitude for her body, for the fact that it had carried her for so long and continued to stay alive and keep her here on this earth. I just wanted to hug her for hours and tell her body that I loved it so much for keeping her alive and for letting us keep such a beautiful person on this earth.<\/span><\/p>\n And then, I began to wonder if she ever felt that way about her body, if she ever told her body that she loved it. So I gave her the assignment to tell her body that she loved it every day for a week. And then I gave the assignment to my eating disorder group,\u00a0 and then I gave the assignment to myself, and now I\u2019m giving it to you.<\/span><\/p>\n Healing body image isn\u2019t as simple as standing in front of a mirror and telling your body that it\u2019s beautiful and that you love it. You will never feel okay doing that because you just won\u2019t believe it. But what about telling your body that you love it the way you would one of your children or one of your pets, or someone else you loved? Would you all of a sudden stop loving your child or your pet because they gained weight?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI love you because we\u2019ve been together our whole lives. I love you because you have kept me alive. I love you because even though I\u2019ve abused you, and been angry at you and said horrible things to you, you keep me alive. You stay with me. I beat you down, I abuse you, I say mean things to you. God, you don\u2019t deserve that. You have carried me. You have kept me alive and for that I love you. I know that I don\u2019t love your size or your shape or certain things about you. I know that I don\u2019t even like you very much. And I know that sometimes I even hate the way you look. But that\u2019s on me, not on you. That\u2019s on society, not on you. YOU are amazing. I\u2019m sorry for the things that I\u2019ve said, I\u2019m sorry for the way I\u2019ve treated you, I\u2019m sorry for the things I\u2019ve said that made you feel bad. And I\u2019m sorry that I\u2019m probably going to all these things in the future. But please know for now that I love you.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Try to tell your body that you love her once (or twice or 10 times) a day for a week or so and then, check in. You will be amazed at the difference it makes.<\/span><\/p>\n Related:<\/span>\u00a0How To Stop Hating Your Body<\/a><\/p>\n Related:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Thunder Thighs and Other \u201cProblem\u201d Areas<\/a><\/p>\n Right now I\u2019m loving the book\u00a0<\/span>Body Positive Power<\/a>\u00a0by<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Body PosiPanda<\/a>\u00a0(Megan Jane Crabbe)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to Love Your Body Even When You Hate the Way It Looks I was speaking with one of my wonderful and beautiful clients about all her body has been through. Between childhood abuse, chronic illness, fertility treatments, multiple children and a life-long eating disorder- her body has been through a lot. I was sitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1250],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBut\u00a0HOW\u00a0Can You Love Your Body When You Hate the Way It Looks?<\/span><\/h5>\n
It\u2019s not about loving the way your body looks, it\u2019s about loving your body in a way that is more pure way, like this:<\/span><\/h5>\n