“My relationship with my body completely changed when I started to love her. When another woman told me my body needed my love it woke me up to just how secretly critical + controlling I had always been with her. I was always looking for the next new way to improve her, or to fix her, so she would be good enough. I had never thought about what it would feel like to simply accept + embrace her as she is. How that simple shift could be so radical for the wellness within my body AND mind." - 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…
