You know, negative body image season.
Shorts.
Tanks.
Skirts.
And yes...bathing suits.
Summer is usually associated with the ice cream man, sun-kissed skin and baby curls on swing sets.
Yet, this season filled with so many positive images can often haunt women with a negative one; their body.
You sit out of the pool while your children beg you to come play in the water with them.
What is making you decline, momma?
Your friends beg you to join them at the lake, but you pile on layers and hide in your beach towel.
What is making you miss out, friend?
This is for every woman who has been ashamed, disgusted, embarrassed and even tormented by the demon lurking in your bathroom mirror.
I'm not going to feed you lies and tell you that I never go a day without speaking death about my body. I'm human. I have my days just like you. But, I decided with the new year that it was time to hit that dance floor and cut loose!
I gave up torturing my wild curls and embracing the body I've got.
It's the only body we are going to have ladies, so you better rock it any way you can!
If it's hot, I'm going to run in my shorts and sports bra.
If my kids are at the pool, I'll be right by their side, not hiding in a beach towel.
Do I have love handles from my love of pizza, stretch marks and fatty deposits?
Of course.
Who the hell cares?
Not anyone but me, and now sometimes that is even questionable.
Honey, it's time to have a sit down meeting with yourself.
Get in that bathing suit, pose in your mirror and give the negative body vomit your middle finger.
You don't have the time to be worrying about those extra pounds or birthing marks.
Stop giving space to negative thoughts and talk, you could really fill that space with so much better.
You could fill that space with pool days with your kids, a sexy dress for a date night, but most importantly you could fill that space with more of you.
That's who matters here.
The moms laying out next to you don't matter.
The woman giving you a cross-eyed look because you're in a bikini and rocking that size 14-she really, really doesn't matter.
It's time to tell negative body talk to go to hell, but it starts with us.
You feel more comfortable in a one piece? Perfect! But, not every woman will.
Maybe the woman with extra pounds you've been mouthing has lost massive amounts of weight and that bikini is a statement to herself and the world that she is free from the world and its standards!
The last time I checked, bathing suits and summer attire were made in every size, so pick out yours, get out there and be fabulous.
Stop negative body talk about yourself and about the women around you.
We are all in this fight against the bathroom mirror together.
How much sense would it make for someone to trip their running team mate as they handed off the baton on a relay race?
None.
They not only hurt their team mate, they hurt themselves as well.
Until we start acting like we're on the same team and stop tripping each other up, we will always fight this battle.
We will always be running on a hamster wheel.
We will always be swinging in the dark at an enemy that isn't in front of us, but within us.
If you can't handle seeing a real human being wear a bathing suit, maybe you're the one who needs to pack up and go home.
Oh, that woman really should cover all that up?
The only ugly thing that needs to be covered up is your hideous and hateful attitude towards your team mate.
Negative body image talk ends with me.
Negative body image talk ends with you.
Size 2 or 22, we are taking swimsuit season back.
Don't like it?
Frankly my dear, we don't give a damn.
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