@soheefit: Long before I became pregnant, I did a lot of hard work on my body image. Now, I fully internalize and believe the following truths: 🫶the things my body can do are far more important than my body shape 🫶my body size has no relation to my self-worth 🫶body image actually has nothing to do with how you actually look and so much more to do with how you’ve been influenced to perceive your body 🫶you can have worse body image in a thinner body than in a bigger body due to the point above 🫶the way my body looks is the least interesting thing about me (but it’s still fun to see my bump growing!) I am visibly bigger now at 19 weeks pregnant than I was before, and I will continue to grow over the remaining 4.5+ months of this journey. Don’t get me wrong: I haven’t loved every aspect of pregnancy, I can’t do everything I used to do before with ease, and there are still parts of my body I don’t love. Body neutrality, though, is about fostering an attitude of acceptance and respect towards your body - not about trying to actively like everything about your body all the time. This has been really refreshing for me, as it’s allowed me to make an observation (neutral or otherwise) and then move on with my day. I instead choose to focus on appreciating everything my body can do and marvel at the fact that that I’m actually growing a human inside me. The best I can do is to continue practicing healthy habits and let my body change however it will. 🥰 #BodyImage #Pregnancy

Sohee Carpenter | Coach, PhD

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