Treating My Body the Way It Deserves to Be Treated

This was emailed to me anonymously. Well, actually, I know who sent it, but she asked to remain anonymous. I can respect that. I like to remain anonymous too.

This is a good post. I really like this one, and I think you will too. It's a resolution we should all make, truly.

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I don’t want to say this out loud to anyone. I don’t want to be held accountable to anyone but myself. Sometime after Christmas and all the family drama and old skeletons that come with it, I found my inner dialogue changing again. Before I was pregnant I had done some serious work on forgiveness and being positive and health. I hard a difficult time carrying my babe (though certainly less difficult than many other people, much less) and I found myself letting my inner work go, just trying to get through it. Get through the day.

But now I have a secret. It’s not the fact that am I thankful for my body. These legs that can carry me swiftly to a fallen child, these arms that can easily lift and hug, my womb that created a safe passage for two beautiful human beings to come earthside, my breasts that nourish and add chub to the babe, my feet that dance, my hips that sway, my hands that hold, my eyes that see, my ears that hear and my mouth that can communicate… no that is not the secret. The secret is: I am so grateful to my body for working as well as it does that I am going to thank it.

I am going to thank my body with every bite of food, every sip of water, every replenishing sleep. I am going to listen closely to it, I am going to take care of it. I am going to whisper encouraging things to it, I will recognize all that it can do. I will not make fun of it. I will not call it names. I will not squeeze it into tight clothes.

I have been ignoring it for so long that it’s a challenge listening. But by paying attention to it’s complaints I’ve learned that my body doesn’t like fast food. They took a vote and my mouth was overuled by the stomach, lower intestine and brain. Until recently a work week was comprised of lunches from Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Sonic etc etc etc…. and every week I’d feel bad after eating. Recently I’ve been making easy but healthy things: rice and stir fry veggies will last a couple of days, left over homemade soup from the sweetheart will last a couple more.

I used to look at going out to eat as something to do, a way to make things easier, so since it was easier I would jump at every opportunity to eat at a resturant, regardless of the resturant. Now, I have decided that if we are going to spend the money, we will spend it somewhere we really want to go, not just somewhere conviently located. If we don’t have time to go to one of the good resturants, we should go home.

It’s a new year, a clean slate and I am going to try to honor these promises I have made myself.

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