When was the first time you were ever told to fight your body? As a toddler? In kindergarten? Pre-School? Or long before? I bet you’ve had to eat up your plate even if you weren’t hungry. I bet you’ve heard messages about having to track your...
Have you ever stopped to think about how your body image affects your life? The way you see yourself doesn’t just impact how you look in the mirror—it shapes your confidence, relationships, and the way you show up in the world. If body insecurities are holding you...
Bodies are weird. They do things we aren’t very excited about, like farting and getting sore when we’re doing fun stuff and extruding…substances. Often times, these are sources of shame and embarrassment, silly as it is. We worry about allowing people to get too...
When I was a little girl I began to believe I was a klutz. My father frequently told me this, others compared me to my sister who was apparently “coordinated”, and of course, good old Ma Martin in gym class did not do much to counter my ideas about my physical...
By Sophia Holly For a majority of my childhood, I felt alive and confident in my body. I played in the woods, I biked around my cul-de-sac for the fun of it, climbed trees, and danced to the beat of my own drum. One day at recess, this aliveness turned upside down. I...
