{"id":2236,"date":"2019-10-24T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2019-10-24T08:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:18:32","slug":"a-letter-to-my-younger-self-your-body-is-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/2019\/10\/24\/a-letter-to-my-younger-self-your-body-is-a-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to My Younger Self: Your Body is a Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the start of my newest piece for Darling Magazine. You can read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t realize this now, but you spend a lot of time,\u00a0too much time<\/em>,\u00a0worrying about your body. Every day you look at yourself in the mirror and concern yourself with the current size of your body\u2014the shape of it, the weight of it, how it fits (or doesn\u2019t fit) into your skinny pair of jeans.<\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s exhausting. I know it\u2019s 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\u2019t quite good enough and like you always need to be working on it somehow\u2014 to change it, to make it better.<\/p>\n

But I want you to know that a decade from now, you won\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Read the whole article here, at Darling Magazine<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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This is the start of my newest piece for Darling Magazine. You can read the entire article here. You don\u2019t realize this now, but you spend a lot of time,\u00a0too much time,\u00a0worrying about your body. Every day you look at yourself in the mirror and concern yourself with the current size of your body\u2014the shape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[985,981,535,124,987,984,988,982,986,983],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-body-image-issues","tag-body-insecurity","tag-christian-body-image","tag-darling-magazine","tag-guest-writer-for-darling-magazine","tag-how-do-i-find-peace-with-my-body","tag-how-do-i-write-for-darling-magazine","tag-why-do-i-hate-my-body","tag-why-do-i-struggle-with-my-body","tag-worried-about-my-weight","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Unworthy-body.png?fit=1728%2C2304&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}