The Body Is A Work Of Art

The more I take back the beauty of my body, the health of my life the more liberated I feel! The more I accept my body in it's transformation (slowly but surely) the more I love myself, with and without clothes.... At times it's hard and It can be tough, in a society that prizes unrealistic images. But I'm learning that it is possible, and it starts with what I say when I look in the mirror. My goal is to retrain my brain how to think positively about my reflection and my body. I've accepted the fact that I'm going to always have a small booty (lol)... It's not the biggest but I'm learning to be perfectly comfortable with the fact it's not!  I'm learning that I may never be a size 6, but I'm learning to be perfectly comfortable loving the thickness God has blessed me with!! Retraining my brain to have nothing but positive thoughts when I look in the mirror is starting to become something I naturally do, something that's not premeditated. At this point in my life, I have to realize those factors because social conditioning is a very real, very powerful force and can destroy a persons self esteem... 

From birth, we are exposed to a specific images in our media that reinforce the attractiveness of an unattainable ideal of female beauty. That we have to look like this, or walk like this, etc.  We are constantly affronted with photo-shopped images of actresses and models who embody these traits, and want more and more and more because they can not seem to find the happiness within themselves. Media uses this to make us feel less worthy of ourselves and buy into the standards of beauty that they give us... Well I'm no longer buying the bullshit because I am learning to love myself and better myself physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Each day I'm going to give myself a hug and say, "you are perfectly imperfect, flawed for uniqueness, your beauty is not an apology, it is a masterpiece from an awesome creator!!"

I am loving me some me!!!!!