It used to be that every new beginning
was a date with a diet
A diet-date.
It was the day I planned
to start “being good”
to “get serious about what I ate”
It looked like this:
January 1st – the BIG cultural diet-date
Birthday – diet-date the day after
A wedding – diet-date 2 months prior
Conference – diet-date 2 weeks prior
Family gathering – diet-date 1 month prior
Every new beginning
An opportunity for
Food shame
and
Body blame
What if…
(and it can truly be this way)
A new beginning was
A date with deepening
A deepening-date.
The New Year – deepening self-compassion
Birthday – deepening into my desires
A wedding – deepening my love affair with myself
Conference – deepening authenticity
Family gathering – deepening relationship
What if new beginnings
were not another time to engage
with cultural messages of
body-expectations and beauty ideals
What if new beginnings
were a time to engage
with ourselves
not from a place of management
but from a place of tenderness.
~ Nina Manolson
NinaManolson.com
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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