This is all I wanted… . To be immersed in this cold flowing river, nearly naked. . Listen! The fight to SEE my body, and to love it, has been REAL! . I began therapy about a year ago, a brain gym therapy, that completely rewired my brain and created new neural pathways, and gray matter, and on day 1, my lady asked, “what pains you”?. I retorted, “physically”? She said, “no, Lindsay…. What PAAAiiinnnsss you”?. I said, “my body”. Her, “why? What do you THINK when you look at it”? I said, “disgust”. Her, “why”? And I went down the hole of all the ways men had their way with *my* body since the age of ten… She said, “would men just being able to have their way with your body hold up as a fact in the court of law”? Me, “🤯🤯🤯🤯No”… That shook me, because, for thirty years, that was the deep rooted THOUGHT that was so far imbedded into my brain, nervous system, and body. . In this past year, I let go of that trauma, those thoughts, and have begun to LIVE in this body of mine. Fully. Acceptance, and appreciation, and I don’t give a fuggggg what anyone says or thinks about it. . I have zero shame, anymore. I embrace the cesarean overhang (though I will have to have surgery this year, for other reasons than the overhang, and it will change my stomach, so I’m in a weird space about that right now), and the hip dips, cellulite, deflated breasts from nursing three babes….. stretch marks, scars galore… I see them ALL and I love them! I finally, really, love them, and this is my public declaration. . Not that *you* needed me to do this…. *I* needed to do this, as an act of out loud love, for my temple. . Normalize every body and feeling unabashedly unashamed, and NOT shaming others for what they embrace about their body’s! .
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