Season 17 Episode 8: UnFollow Bullying our Bodies

THE WORK
Follow Learning to Love our Bodies

“Your body hears everything your mind says.”
—Naomi Judd

What if we stopped allowing our brains to bully our bodies? “I
love my body” doesn’t mean I have to like everything about it.
But it does mean I stop my brain from bullying her.

Enter this work thinking of your future self, your favorite
version of yourself, the one who doesn’t bully her body every
day. The one who speaks kindly to her body and doesn’t judge
her or others. When you get excited about that version, only
then begin asking all the questions.

Questioning everything with excitement is a method for
living. It’s where we choose to not only heal, but live. It’s
where we decide to not only think but do!
Your body loves you. She has proven this time and time
again. Now, show her some love by healing some open wounds
you still have.

This work helps you to UnFollow society defining what our
body should look like and making the decision you will define
it! Year after year, we criticize our bodies, and it hasn’t
changed anything; so, it’s time to change the status quo and,
instead, do the work and Follow learning to love our bodies.

This is your reminder that you do not need to love every
part of your body in order to be kind to it. What if you begin
this work by treating your body the way you hope your
daughter treats hers, the way you pray your son treats his?
Sometimes, the thought of loving our bodies is too far-fetched;
but imagining it’s your daughter’s, your mother’s, your best
friend’s, that changes your mindset and leads you on the path
of healing.

• List all the things your body has done for you. Don’t
  stop until you get to at least twenty.
• Write a letter to your body, apologizing for the way
  you have bullied it, including the things you have made
  her miss out on. Then, burn it!
• UnFollowing all the abuse you did to her requires you
  to replace it with a new following. Write a letter on
  how you plan to treat her, going forward. How you
  plan to learn to love her. Write it from a place of joy
  and excitement and possibility. No shame can live in
  this letter! Laminate it! Put it on your mirror. Have it
  in plain sight, read it every day, until your mind no
  longer bullies your body.
• Write on a Post-it: “I love my body and everything she
  has done for me.” Place it somewhere you see it daily.

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