I started to pay attention to the critical voice in my head that said such mean things about my body. I realized that I would never let someone talk like that about my sister or best friend. Why was I letting this carry on in the back ground and even entertaining it? - Andrea
Don’t yet see your body as beautiful?
It takes practice my love…
When I began to practice loving my body, she started to show up totally different to me. I no longer saw all the things that were wrong with her and instead started to see everything that was so amazing about her….
I scrubbed my thighs and my legs, remembering how unkind I had sometimes been to them, always pushing my body to be thinner or paying attention to the parts I loved while ignoring the parts I didn’t…
Whether I am in a group of women doing a scrub or by myself at home in the shower, not only does my skin feel supple and smooth, I also feel physically lighter and brighter as if I had sloughed off a layer that was no longer needed…
Time and time again, this work blows me away. I’ve seen firsthand that when a woman loves the body she calls home, she can embrace her power to create the life of her dreams. It was through this work that I was led to Zenziva…
