SUMMER SHAME
It creeps up with talk of bikini bodies
It shows up with moms hiding behind kids in the vacation pics
It stays invisible but deeply felt in the resistance of “I don’t want go to the beach or that pool party, with everyone in their bathing suits.”
Body-shame gets loud in the summer
It shouts – you’re body should be different!
It should look like that image – that image of perfection emblazoned in your psyche.
For me it was…
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no stretch marks
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no belly
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no hair
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no jiggle
Which meant…
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no me
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no pleasure
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no freedom
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no body ease
Yet there’s an antidote to Summer Shame
It’s not a new you
not a new body
not the last 5-10-15 lbs
It’s summer feeling
Naming your body-image wounding and shame
It’s summer healing
Choosing to heal instead of looking for the next way to fix yourself
It’s summer outrage
Speaking out against the rules and limitations you put on your body
It’s summer compassion
Creating gentleness and connection with your body
It’s letting the
warm air,
the gentle breeze,
the water’s edge
soften the conversation you have with yourself.
Please,
make space to breath fully,
flow,
and live in your body with ease.
You deserve summer freedom.
~ Nina Manolson,
Body-Peace® Founder & Coach
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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.
Start your Body-Peace® journey with this free masterclass that will help you understand and shift your relationship with your body.
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