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 are also feeling the pressure by social media to have a ‘better body.’  Society tells women to be thinner and men to be more muscular.  Oh, 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 to receive that compliment for some.  Being unable to accept the compliment may stem from negative comments made when you were a child, or the images of thin, chiseled 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 or muscle enhancer?  Neither of them has your best interest, nor do they even know the true-authentic YOU.

Replace those thoughts with healthy self-aspirations/goals.  If there are physical (or any other) changes you want to make, 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!”