URGENT: Love Your Body Now

We've all heard the lines of Mary Oliver's poem "The Summer Day" that ends in, "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"  And we feel inspired! Ah, the possibilities! Ah, don't let it go to waste! I must live! I must laugh! I must love! I must have the most incredible life!!

 

But have you ever linked YOUR BODY to this? In all of the dreaming and planning of your "one wild and precious life," have you ever thought to yourself, "In order to live the most full life I can, I must absolutely LOVE my body!" My guess is no. And why not? Isn't it the only thing we have to experience this life with in the first place?  Can we, in fact, live, laugh, love, WITHOUT our bodies? Can we do any meaningful, purposeful work? Can we experience the love of a romantic partner or the hugs of our children without our bodies? 

 

Nope. 

 

And yet, this number one tool, this thing that we are gifted with as God brings us into the world is something many of us are constantly at war with. We walk around both with the rejection AND the thing we are rejecting at all times, day and night. Do you truly think you're going to be able to have the most fulfilling "wild and precious life" if you're walking around with a bag of rejection hanging at your side?

 

It's direly important we learn to love our bodies. NOW. As they are. Not when we lose 10 pounds, not when we get that surgery, not when we "finally get our act together and get to the gym," but RIGHT NOW. And THEN move toward health from a place of love - don't you think loving a thing is a greater motivator than shaming it?

 

Let's discuss here in this episode all these things and more.

 

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