Just Because

I’ve put my body through a lot: years of alcohol abuse, crazy diets and disordered eating, hiking the dang PCT with no training whosoever...but my body never gives up on me. It insists that I slow down when it needs rest, but otherwise, it’s been loyal as can be. It wakes up with me every day, continues to do its absolute very best to keep on keepin’ on.

Early in my food freedom journey, I was encouraged to list positive things about my body. “I love my body because...”

This was a step in the right direction, but because the list was composed of things I liked about the way my body looked, or things I thought my body was good at, it was essentially a list of conditional love statements. A list of reasons why my body deserved love, with an implication that should my body fail to continue meeting these conditions, it may not deserve love anymore.

My body loves me unconditionally. It has shown me that over and over throughout my life. And I wanna give that love right back. So here it is.

I love my body just because! It’s me, it’s mine. It’s an amazing miracle of existence. And it deserves love regardless of what it can do or how it looks in any outfit. 

Can you show your body the same unconditional love it shows you? Can you love it just because it’s yours?