DID YOU DIVORCE YOUR BODY ? © Nina Manolson
What I want to say to you if you divorced your body somewhere along the way and don ’ t know how to reconnect .
I want to say … I get it .
I divorced my body early on . I was 9 , when my body started to feel like it wasn ’ t a safe place to be . I was 14 when I started to feel like I had to manage it and every morsel that entered . I was 16 when it became deeply confusing to be the shape of me . I was 18 when my body became the enemy . And by 19 , my body was my full time DIY project .
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I hear it every day from smart amazing women , the moment , the moments they divorced their body .
When it was unsafe for you to be in a woman ’ s body . When the shape of you was criticized by your mother , your father , your gym teacher and others … When the way to bond with friends was the next diet . When the way to be loved was thinness . When the illness , the injury , the hormone change made you feel like your body had betrayed you . When the number on the scale determined your worthiness .
What I want to say to you if you ’ ve divorced your body somewhere along the journey of your life is …
You can find a relationship with her that works . You can learn to trust her again and she can learn to trust you . You can divorce the inner-diet-police and the ruling-skinny-culture instead of divorcing yourself . You don ’ t have to fix yourself . You don ’ t have to manage your body . You have FULL permission to have a joyous relationship with your body .
There ’ s a way to re-connect to pleasure and joy in your own skin . I promise . You can find a way back to being at home .
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