7 Ways Loving Yourself Can Change Your Life
Mirrors used to scare me. As I walked past, I never knew who would show up. The good witch {I like to picture myself as Glinda from the Wizard of Oz} or the bad witch? Unfortunately, the bad mean ugly witch showed up 98% of the time. She enjoyed letting me know my hair didn’t look quite right or how the brownie I ate really did go directly to my thighs. It was a never ending banter of body part put downs.
This began in high school when I weighed 115 lbs. on a 5’2″ frame and continued into adulthood when my weight reached a high of 137.
It affected the clothes I wore because I needed to cover up the less than desirable parts of my body. It affected my relationships, sex with the lights on? No way! It even affected how I sat in chairs.
I said things to my beautiful body I would never say out loud. I was a bully to ME. I was miserable and had no idea how to stop.
Internally, I was the general of a war within me. Externally, I put on a really good show.
I started going to a yoga class. I quickly realized how disconnected I was to my body. By being quiet, I learned more about what I wanted in life and what I needed. Yoga introduced me to myself. The part of me that was hiding from all the nastiness.
Then one day, this simple sentence that I heard several times before from my yoga teacher clicked in my head. I was free.
“You are complete yet unfinished.”
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