It all begins with love

Dec 16, 2024

Have you ever thought that every time you dieted, every time you decided to change your eating habits was an opportunity to love yourself?

The issue is the perception, the understanding of the full concept, its acceptance and how it can shape our life.

For example, I remember whenever I decided to diet, to change something about what I ate (or didn't eat) the focus was always on punishment. Punishing my body for either not behaving as I expected it to, or for not complying with society's beauty standards. Punishing myself for being weak in the face of "temptations", for lacking the discipline to push harder through challenges, for not being like someone else. It was always punishment.

The same was true for exercise. For years and years, my presence in the gym was all about humiliating myself, about punishing "the fat in me", about subduing the shameful part of me that didn't want to move, that wanted to rest and read instead. Again, punishment.

It was only when I started working out for a different reason, and with a different goal in mind, that I began enjoying it and became quite hooked to it. But, as luck has it, after two pregnancies, with two kids at tow and not enough hours in the days, I'm back to my "reset setting" of little movement and much more shame.

Anyway, what would have happened if I had seen the dietary changes as a way to love myself, as an act of service and devotion to my body and my goals. What would the outcome had been?

Perhaps, I wouldn't had yo-yo'ed constantly and would had felt more in control of my weight earlier. Who knows... Yet this reflection is opening my eyes to something I have never think of. I live my life thinking of ways and ideas to reach out to others, to touch people, specially women, and empower them to regain control over their bodies and lives, so that they can thrive and live joyfully. My message has always come from love, from acceptance, from light. But, what about me?

So far, I haven't dealt with my own "skeletons". Here I am, trying on pants and feeling ashamed of my body and weight, postponing plans and ideas because I'm afraid to show myself to the world, to expose the fact that a big chunk of the weight I lost years ago is back and that I'm still struggling to figure out what's up with my body in terms of health. Here I am, not able to see again the beauty in me, to see my worth beyond the physical of it, wondering how can I punish myself back into shape.

And so I wonder, can I reframe this? Can I swap concepts and change everything to heal my emotional issues and let go of the guilt, the shame, the punishment? Can I love myself to health and happiness? Can I heal myself thin?

I'm a believer in the power that our emotions have in what happens on our physical body. I know that the more we heal our hearts and minds, the more our bodies heal... So, why not give it a try? In the end, the worst that can happen is that I fall in love with myself again!

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Have you ever thought that every time you dieted, every time you decided to change your eating habits was an opportunity to love yourself?

The issue is the perception, the understanding of the full concept, its acceptance and how it can shape our life.

Reframing, transforming, rethinking… My journey has just begun. Read about it on my latest post. Link on my profile (INSERTA EMOTICONS Y DEMAS)