Sometimes, I find focusing on my body exhausting.
And I know what you're thinking. Well that's not very body positive, but the thing is, in this social media fuelled world, how are we not meant to not have burnout when it comes to our bodies, when the focus is always on our bodies?
How can we expect to be fixated on our bodies and other bodies, scrutinising every aspect and angle and bump and curve, 24 hours a day and not get sick of it?
There's always some comment, some thought whether good or bad, the focus is there on the body.
This week I loved that Jonah Hill took steps on his IG to let people know, hey you don't need to say anything! You don't need to comment. In the most peaceful way he too said, IM TIRED.
I made a post recently about choosing to not comment on someone's body: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSw1Q7LobYF/?utm_medium=copy_link
We are constantly commenting on our bodies or others whether with reflection or celebration and that can be wonderful, positive but it can also be harmful. Because shouldn't one of the aims to be to go beyond the body. To see someone as a whole person, not the physical presented before you!
Add a chronic illness like endometriosis to the mix and the awareness around my body is constant and that's tiring because...
We are more than our bodies. We are more than looking and learning to love the stretch marks, and I'm not saying that isn't important.
But we are more than finally wearing that bikini and that doesn't negate the triumph of that...
But now more than ever my body isn't the only thing I want to celebrate or focus on.
As Walt said, we contain multitudes.
And some of that doesn't exist in relation to our bodies; which is massive for someone like me, who does believe in body acceptance, to say, but that is the truth.
Because the acceptance isn't just about your external body.
It's about your mind, your soul and your spirit and your heart.
There is so much happening there and there is so much you're navigating in life in which your body blessedly carries you through but is not the one leading you through.
There is more, you are more and so I guess that's all I wanted to say today.
Just in case no one reminds you, just in case you're tired of people focusing on your body and its size and its shape and your height and anything else...you are more than all of that.
You are a multitude and that is so amazing.
