'It's difficult to love something you've been taught your whole life to reject.'
Like many people, I once used phrases like"love your curves" and"love yourself." I worked as a personal trainer for nearly a decade in New York City, where the majority of my clients came to me because theyand wanted to feel confident and"good enough" for perhaps the first time in their lives. But eventually, I grew tired of trying to treat the symptom and quit the fitness industry altogether. Instead, I set out to help women change the way they saw themselves.
This is problematic for a few reasons. First of all, your relationship with your body is just like a relationship with any other person. Sometimes you feel a lot of admiration for it, but a lot of times you don't. Secondly, you'll never wake up and be done healing your body image issues.
This is where body neutrality comes in. Tackling body issues is complicated enough without setting the bar so high. Shifting the goal to body neutrality can take the pressure off and also seems to make it easier for people to approach this, rather than a destination. Most importantly, body neutrality completely upends the idea that a woman's confidence should be based on her appearance in any way. It says that your body is just that: a body.
If you want to work toward body neutrality, you first need to acknowledge that what we've been taught — that conventionally beautiful and thin women are somehow superior — is wrong, and that all people are equally worthy of love, respect, autonomy, kindness, acceptance, and belonging, no matter how they look. Being called thin or beautiful isn't really a compliment, and being called fat or ugly isn't an insult.
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