You don’t pause anymore
not to scan the table,
not to clock what they’re having,
not to read the room
before reading the menu.
You order what you want.
Not what sounds virtuous.
Not what they’ll approve of.
Not what fits into someone else’s
story about you.
You eat in public now
not just on your own
in the car
quietly tossing the wrapper
before anyone sees the evidence,
leaving only your secret sigh.
You eat in plain sight.
With both hands.
With your eyes closed
because the bite is bliss.
With your eyes wide open
because you are fully here
for every choice you make.
You’re not saving the chocolate
for when the coast is clear.
You’re not shrinking your hunger
to match their comfort.
You don’t earn your food anymore—
with steps
or discipline
or silence.
You are not a better person
for ordering the kale.
You are not a worse one
for licking the butter off your fingers.
You are not a problem
because you have an appetite.
You are not shameful
because you have desire.
This is your body,
this is your need,
this is your seat at the table.
You get to have it.
All of it.
Seen.
Unapologetic.
Whole.
You eat in plain sight now.
And that is a revolution—
and a kind of peace
you didn’t know you were hungry for.
Nina Manolson, MA, is the founder of Body-Peace®.She helps women end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their body—as it is.
She is known for her deeply feminist, anti-diet, body-peace® approach. She brings her 30 years of experience as a therapist, Body-Trust® Guide and Psychology of Eating Teacher to helping women create a respectful and trusting relationship with their food and body.
Nina’s Body-Peace® work is all in service of helping people get off the diet roller-coaster, and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living which creates a positive long-lasting change in and with their bodies. Her courses, coaching, poems and Body-Peace APP positively change the conversation that women are having with their body.
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