This is the start of my newest piece for Darling Magazine. You can read the entire article here.
You don’t realize this now, but you spend a lot of time, too much time, worrying about your body. Every day you look at yourself in the mirror and concern yourself with the current size of your body—the shape of it, the weight of it, how it fits (or doesn’t fit) into your skinny pair of jeans.
I know it’s exhausting. I know it’s hard. I know when your pant size moves up, you do everything you can to move it back down. I know you feel like your body isn’t quite good enough and like you always need to be working on it somehow— to change it, to make it better.
But I want you to know that a decade from now, you won’t worry about your body every day. A decade from now, you will have experienced the merciful grace of living through intense sickness and emotional pain with a body that made it through both. Your own feet will have carried you thousands of miles across your own city and across the world, without breaking down or failing you. You will have lived through the beautiful, painful gift of carrying and birthing two children, and then feeding those children from your own body. You will be amazed at what your body has done.
A decade from now, you will be at a comfortable peace with the body that you have been given. It is all you have. It is yours. It is a wonder.
Read the whole article here, at Darling Magazine!
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