#selflovebootcamp

Don't lose sleep over other people's opinions of you. . . #selflover❤️ #selflovetips #selflove❤️ #selflovematters #selflovesunday #selflovejourney #selflovetribe #selfloveadvocate #selflovewarrior #selflovequote #selflovebootcamp #selfloveblogger #selflovejunkie #selflovecoach #selflovegoals #selflove❤ #selflovethreads #selflovethread #selfloveisthebestlove #tagify_app #selfloveproject #selflovemovement #selflovesaturday #selflovefirst #selfloveisfirstlove #selflovesoldier #selfloveisntselfish #selfloveclub #selflover #selflovery (at The Universe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCnrDg_FWTG/?igshid=1l184mn5dz1gz

If you excuse my silly faces my make up and hair made me happy yesterday ✨🌻 #selflovebootcamp Day 1: Introduction. I’m Char, 21 and from Essex. I currently live in Brighton and am studying Psychology at university. My favourite animal is a dolphin, my favourite colour is blue and I am the luckiest girl alive when it comes to my friends. I love reading and walks through nature. I have the most amazing boyfriend. Going to the cinema is one of my favourite things alongside theatre trips. Chocolate and crisps and pesto pasta scream my name 24/7. Life is difficult and I’ve been struggling with mental health since I was 9. But I’m living and I’m doing my best every single day.

Hey friends! A few questions for you: 1. Whats my #health? Go ahead. Take a guess, all you have to go on is how I look. Not quite accurate, huh??? 2. What do #abs have to do with health? 🤔 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Do abs give me better organs? . Do abs give me better reproductive health? . Do abs solve my mental health problems? . Do abs provide me with lower cortisol levels? . Do abs make doctors more affordable? . Do abs take care of emotional trauma? 🚫🚫🚫🚫 Do abs belong in the narrative of health???? 😨 (let alone airbrushed abs!!) The answer: they absolutely don't. Similar to cellulite (oh ya we're going there) some people are genetically predisposed to having lean body masses where they have visible abs. We've made this genetic predisposition the beauty norm, to the point where we work for it now. 👉 People want abs not because it's symbol for homeostasis but because power lies in beauty. 💥 So, what is a beauty norm doing on a so called "health" magazine? 📖📕 Abs have helped create this fear of fat, this beauty norm often confused for a health norm is defining our value and worth in people. 🗣 NO. You can't tell my health from my body and you shouldn't. You can't tell a persons health from looking at them and magazines like this purport that you can. Health is NOT synonymous with abs. Health is multifaceted. Health is personal. Health is private. Deconstructing this is important to respecting bodies and respecting ourselves. What do you think? 📝 #medialiteracy #selflovebootcamp #scienceoverbeautyculture #selflove #mentalhealthawareness (at Toronto, Ontario)

day 26 of the #selflovebootcamp and its #boycottthebefore !!! and it's to show that ED's look different on everyone!! and i just wanted to add that recovery bodies do too!! the first photo i'm in the midst of my eating disorder, and the second i'm in recovery, and... i look pretty much the same?! (minus my 100 layers of clothing in the first photo!) and, i'm showing you this because not everyone with an eating disorder has a before photo that is "worryingly thin" some people do, but some people don't... and that's why we need to rid the idea that all people with eating disorders are "thin". i'm pretty much, here and there, the same weight in both photos... but that doesn't even matter, the point is... my emotional and mental wellbeing in the second photo has changed drastically 💚 all our ED bodies look different, and all our recovery bodies look different too... anywho, let's just appreciate who we were before, move on, and focus on who we are now 💚

Day six of #selflovebootcamp is #cellulitesaturday baby! Before I started recovery I would have NEVER posted this. But today I am brand new. I feel happy and confident. I used to be so ashamed of my body and soon I know I can love it. I haven't worn shorts in three years because of the cellulite on my legs but WHY? why am I depriving myself this small little thing? NO MORE fuck you ed I LOOK GOOD. I love this. I love recovery. I can't wait to see what else recovery can bring back into my life.

The world is good today. I’m drinking coffee, about to work on a blanket I’m knitting and listening to amazing women spreading important messages on @chr1styharrison’s podcast. The @isabelfoxenduke episodes are literally my favourite. Surrounding myself and educating myself about issues around food and strengthening my recovery and learning about health at every size and normal eating and not demonising foods or trying to control anything has been an amazing tool in helping myself get better and learn to LIVE again! I am forever learning and improving and changing and I am thankful for that. I am so SO thankful for my rational mind, for healthy Sophie. I love her SO much, as crazy as that sounds. I love the person I become when I am able to just ‘be’ and live in the moment. I love how strong and compassionate and determined and persevering she is, and damn, I am proud that she is ME 😅 #selflovebootcamp #itsokaytoloveyourself Tell me, what do you love about yourself? I want to hear! And if you don’t want to tell me, tell yourself! Tell yourself 3 things that you love about yourself and appreciate yourself even if it’s just for a few minutes today because you deserve it. Practise loving yourself, learn to appreciate yourself and see how amazing you are. It’s crazy how that’s such a revolutionary thing, when it should just BE!

Day 10: #selfiesunday. I HATE this photo. It was taken on the same day as others I've posted and quite like so why am I bashing this one so? Sure it's an odd angle but a face is a face, mine hasn't magically sprouted warts (which would be ok too though!). But I'm posting this regardless and I'm going to take more selfies and aim to love at least something about every one! #selflovebootcamp #fuckdietculture #bopo #edrecovery #anorexiarecovery #depressionrecovery #bodypositivity #wordpress #wordpressblogger #anxietyrecovery #anorexiarecovery #realrecovery #effyourbeautystandards

Hi friends ✌️ Let's talk about self care, shall we? Self care is defined as the care done "by you for you." It's a personal assessment on what your emotional, mental and physical needs are. Why is this important? I believe this narrative is increasingly important because it teaches us to check in with ourselves, it teaches reflection, a knowingness of what you need, I find this valuable. Also because we live in a culture that somehow feeds self indulgence while simultaneously ignoring the basics of what some bodies need in order to exist. There are some people who can't get medical care, what does self care look like to them? There are some people who live in places in 1st word countries who don't have clean water, what does self care mean to them? There are some people like @the_feeding_of_the_fox who are disabled, what does self care look like to them? There are some people who have middle class syndrome, who were abused growing up, what does self care look like to them? . Did you know that the "economy of altered states" which includes drugs, psychopharmaceuticals, media, entertainment, pursuit sports, travel, video games, counselling, the self help market, etc basically anything that helps you "escape" escalates up to 4 trillion dollars a year. T R I L L Y. TRILLIONS. OF. DOLLARS. . We spend money trying to escape, to do anything to put us in a novelty headspace, to give us a dopamine rush maybe increase our serotonin for a second to put us in a wow place, I find this fascinating because while some of us chase that wow factor, others are looking to escape because it means survival, it means if they escape they get to exist. I'm not sure where I'm going with this caption, I think I just wanna say self care looks different on every BODY. 👉 And if you are invested in self care then you support to wellbeing of ALL bodies. 👈 That's all. Thanks for reading ❤️ #selfcaresunday #selflovebootcamp #stayinvested #makethechange (at Toronto, Ontario)