BODY-HOPPING
Her body is tall and lean
It’s better in her body
All the clothes fit
All the people love her more
She loves herself more
Her body is petite and buff
It’s better in her body
All the yoga clothes fit just so
She posts pictures of herself
She walks with body-confidence
Her body is curvy in all the right places
She walks with sensuality
She’s feels sexy
And your body?
Is your body hard to live in sometimes.
Hard to be at ease in.
So you body hop?
Skip into her body, and hers, and hers,
because you imagine that living in her body is better.
If you lived in her body
If you hopped into her skin
If you forced your body into her shape
Then you would be happier
Life would be better
Here’s what I can tell you from working with women and their relationship with their bodies for almost 30 years
It’s not happier in her body
Her body has it’s own stuff
It’s own struggle
It’s own journey
It may not be a journey that wrestles with food and shape
Her opportunities for growth and learning may come in the shape of relationships, career, alcohol,
or the myriad of other life challenges
Hopping into her body isn’t the answer
Trying to have her body won’t get you
where you want to be
Yes, staying in your body can sometimes be hard.
There are feelings that feel impossible to bear
Thoughts that are vicious
But practicing being in your own body
– because it is a practice
will bring you back to your own wisdom
and show you your own magnificence.
~ Nina Manolson
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Nina Manolson, MA, NBC-HWC, board certified Health Coach, Psychology of Eating Coach and Certified Body-Trust Provider, believes that every woman deserves to feel good in her own body.
She helps women create a healthy and positive relationship with their food and body so they can love their body and life! She’s the founder of NinaManolson.com and The Nourished Woman Nation.
She helps busy women feel good in their own body.. She specializes in working with women over 40 who have tried other diets and approaches but are still struggling with their body and food.
She’s the creator of the BODY-LOVE MAP and the recipient of the prestigious Health Leadership Award from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
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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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