Before I can say
The words
“I don’t want to”
“No thank you”
“I want this other thing”
Before I can set
The boundary
In a pro-social
Kind
Caring
Considerate way
My no looks like
A little girl
Hair a matted mess
Running wildly
In the opposite direction
My no looks like
Staying up late
To have stolen moments
Alone
It looks like a merging
into Netflix
To disengage
From the demand
From the expectation
To say yes
To do more
My no
Before it comes
Into my mouth
Looks like:
I don’t care
Like I don’t want to
Like I don’t like you
It looks like an
insatiable hunger
My no tries
To get my attention
Or yours
So that I can step
Away
And say yes to myself
~ Nina Manolson
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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