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Body Positivity!: The way your body may or may not change with body positivity

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If you try to not fear other’s opinions of your body, your nose won’t shrink to a makeup advertisement-friendly size. You will still be bald. Your left breast will still be bigger than the right and hair will keep growing in places where it’s always grown. 

But maybe you’ll relax a bit. Maybe your shoulders will drop half an inch. Maybe you’ll sleep better and then maybe the shadows under your eyes won’t seem as deep and dark. Perhaps the stress you feel will wane a bit. You’ll take time to drink a glass of water, to digest your food. Your stomach will agree with you and your acne may calm down and break out a little less. Maybe you’ll smile more.

One day you’ll dare leave your cardigan at home and while showing off your flabby or bony or hairy arms you’ll let your shoulders meet the rays of the sun and let me tell you that THAT will be a beautiful marriage. When you come back home you’ll look at your collarbones in the mirror and no, they still won’t fit in a commercial for underwear, but you will see them. And you may want to see them again.

Then one day at the beach you decide to not wear your long shorts anymore. Legs belong in the sun and they will love you for letting them out. Your thighs may even tan a bit and the stretch marks fade a little. Who knows? You might end up missing those stripes. And if you don’t it doesn’t matter anyway. They’re still there.

Your body will still be the same body you left home with. It just might be breathing a little easier.

You don’t have to be raging in love with your body every day of your life. You don’t even have to feel very strongly about it. But if you treat it better, you may find it answering by feeling better. And then one day you may end up viewing it not as something you have, but something you are.