How to Love Your Body More JUST by Watching This Video…

Raise your hand if you’ve ever struggled with body image issues.

If you’re a woman (or girl), chances are, you’re probably raising your hand right now.

No, wait.

You’re probably raising both hands.

Unless you’re part of the small percentage who actually love their bodies.

But if you’re like the rest of us, you’ve probably struggled with loving your body at one point or another.

How could you not with both traditional and social media continually telling and showing you how you should look?

Even with brands like Dove trying to get us to see ourselves differently or others trying to represent women of different sizes, we still get many messages about what the perfect figure looks like.

And many of us still spend a lot of time wishing we had that perfect figure.

We don’t like this about ourselves.

Or we don’t like that about ourselves.

But we do like that about someone else and we spend our time comparing ourselves to that someone else (who’s probably comparing herself to someone else…).

And concluding that we’re less than…

That we (and our bodies) are not perfect.

Would you have the courage to do this?

That’s the conclusion the woman, who made the following video, seemingly came to when she decided to do something about it.

When she decided to perform a very public – and potentially very embarrassing – experiment at a crowded marketplace in downtown Boise, Idaho on August 29, 2015.

Watch what happens when she takes her clothes off…and grab a Kleenex.

Tweet this 〉〉 In a society that profits from your self-doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act. ~ The Daily Share

Do you relate? Raise your hand again if you would draw a heart on her body.

It’s amazing, isn’t it? We spend so much time bashing our bodies that we forget how beautiful they are.

How precious they are…because we count on them to carry us through life for as long as possible.

And so, we should take the best care of them that we can…and, yes, I said ‘should’.

But we should also remember (and I quote/paraphrase my friend and Health and Wellness Coach, Michelle Bailen, here) to do this…

You know what? I have a feeling that if you saw that woman at that marketplace, you probably would have been one of the people drawing a heart on her.

After all, we sometimes have such an easier time showing love and acceptance to others than to ourselves.

But, maybe the body you need to draw a heart on is yours…

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To loving your body (and yourself) more,

Rachel

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