Your Body - What's to Love?

 

 

It's summertime (at least here on the U.S. East Coast)! Ok, not officially - but we have had summer weather (even a first heat wave last week - ack!).

And so…we're already seeing a lot of "get that lard ass into shape" advertising (and blog posts) - and will likely see more as the season progresses.

How'z about, to counteract that crap, we do some Square-Peg (mindful nonconformist) counter-culture-y body loving instead!

I'll start!

Awhile back, here on Square-Peg People, we had a series of posts called Body Part Wednesday (the picture above was the logo).

The posts were interactive (I'd share a story about one of my own body parts and ask that readers share theirs) - and meant to bring attention & awareness (which is foundational to love) to different parts of our bodies.

Here are links to some of those posts:

Fun Feet (this one still makes me laugh - and blush)

My Left Breast, this one was written by my friend Luna (aka Maripat Oberg)  the rest are by yours truly -

Shoulders

Hair

This one's about butts - it's a recording.

 

Your turn: Whatcha got?

Point to something (a post - yours or someone else's, a pin on Pinterest, whatevva)

that reminds you that your body - NOW - is wonderful and awe-inspiring! Or makes you giggle

(but not in a snicky way - in the adoring way a mama would giggle at her babe's attempts to grab shafts of sunlight).

So what's to love about YOUR body? Everything!

Muah!

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Want more body-loving encouragement and inspiration? Check out Choosing Me! Body Connection ~ Body Love (MP3 recording & transcript) -

You can listen to a bit of the recording on this page, just click on the free preview button in the middle of the page.

Choosing Me! offers: 

• stories that show how thinking affects our behavior (and how other people see us) 
• playful exercises and imagery to help you shift to a lighter, freer, gentler focus 
• ideas for setting up your own ongoing positive body-relationship experiences 
• tools and imagery to use again and again

Comments

[Jessica Baverstock]

I haven't blogged about my body and I can't think of a post elsewhere that I've read lately on the subject. I mustn't be reading the right blogs!

I have very white skin. My mum used to say she was blinded by my legs when I'd wear a skirt. Aussies value tanned skin. If you're too white it means you're an indoors type and that's frowned upon.

However, when I lived in China the Chinese girls loved my white skin. The Chinese feel tanned skin shows you work outside and so they wish for lighter skin. I wished I had their tan and they wished they had my whiteness.

That taught me a lesson. We're very rarely happy with aspects of ourselves, even if other people would love the body we have. So I am working on loving my whiteness. It helps that my husband calls my skin 'alabaster.'

[Square-Peg Karen]

Thanks for commenting, Jessica!

It's a funny thing (or sometimes not) that some of us value one thing, some another - and that so often we each dislike something of ourselves that another would LOVE. It'd be so much sweeter if we acknowledged & appreciated our differences while adoring them all!

I love that your husband calls your skin 'alabaster' - first thought I had when I read that was ART, because #'s of sculptures are/were made from alabaster.

[Leslie Dixon]

I saw something on Adios Barbie a few weeks ago that went something like, How do you get a bikini body? Put a bikini on your body! I love it!

[Square-Peg Karen]

Ha! I love it too, Leslie - thanks for sharing!!

[Jessica Baverstock]

Yes, I'm sure that's my husband's thought too. It does help when your family is supportive of your body. Then the trick is to listen and believe.

[Square-Peg Karen]

Believe! <3