3 BODY-PEACE STRATEGIES TO
Repair Your Relationship with Your Body
HEALTH & WELLNESS
BY NINA MANOLSON
It can sometimes feel like we ’ re on the
“ outs ” with our body . We feel like we ’ re in a fight – because we are ! We ’ re struggling with the most important relationship in our life – the relationship we have with our body .
Our body-relationship is the longest relationship of our life . We are born into our body and we will die in it .
And yet often it can be the most challenging relationship we have .
Some of us feel that instead of feeling like we have an ally in life ( a wondrous container that allows us to move through this world ) we are dealing with an enemy . So much so that many women feel like they are constantly at war with their own body .
The war sometimes feels like body-hate or shame . It can sometimes look like chronic dieting and then feeling like a failure when we can ’ t stick to the diet . The war can also occur to us as simply never feeling truly at home in our own skin .
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