In my old life I was designing clothes to fit tiny women, fitting them into the latest fads in shops. I was ensuring ‘flaws’ were photoshopped and dressing models for catwalk shows. Spew! I want to slap old me in the face. But we’ve already covered forgiveness this week, haven’t we?
Thankfully, women are waking up and demanding change in the fashion industry. Conscious brands are emerging, and social media is now full of real women.
There are still plenty of us filtering photos and taking a million selfies to just get the right one to post on Instagram. We compartmentalize our bodies, saying we need to work on a specific body part because it’s a ‘problem area’, and we need to diet so we can fit into an old dress. Give that dress away!
We need to understand the focus on our body’s imperfections is a distraction from a deeper pain within. At a deeper level, I believe that we are separated from our wholeness. We are out of alignment of our soul.
I have struggled with judging my body for many years. Striving for perfection has held me back in many areas of my life. Perfectionism is a sickness and the constant strive to be perfect can make us ill. Constantly working out or obsessing over what to eat can be a mask for deeper level of hurt. It can make you ignore other parts of who you are.
“If I just …I will feel good about myself” needs to stop. How about we leave confidence aside and learn to be courageous. Courage will get you to more places in life than confidence. Courage will have you showing up in the world, being out there and weird and wonderfully you.
Be courageous in what you wear, be bold and authentically you. Drop wearing the makeup all the time if you don’t enjoy it, show more skin, wear whatever you like. Let’s drop the generations of suppression. Enjoy the feeling of the jiggle and love your expression lines as this is what connects us. Be courageous by watching your fear without attaching to it.
You a perfectly whole and complete as you are in this moment. Take care of your body by making it your temple. Connect to every part of it with exploratory wonder and pleasure.
