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I’m Sorry For No Longer Being Sorry

April 22, 2016by Lara 6 Comments

I apologize a lot. Multiple times a day, if I’m being honest. I apologize for things I am not sorry for. And I apologize when I don’t know what else […]

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i used to hate my body. i felt betrayed by it. i hated looking at it because it felt like it was a constant reminder of the ways in which it didn’t work. i felt like my body failed me and caused me such pain and i could never figure out why. every time i had a bad pain day i would feel like i was being punished by my own body. ⁣ ⁣ it took me a long time to get to the place where i stopped feeling at war with my own body. where i recognized that my body wasn’t against me, but that it was doing the best it could. it was, in its own way, trying to protect me. ⁣ ⁣ i had one of those days today. a day where i looked at myself in the mirror and saw a body that was one big failure. a body that didn’t work the way it was supposed to no matter how much yoga i did or celery juice i drank. so when i got home from work i took off the clothes that were causing me pain, sat in front of the mirror, and reminded myself of the ways in which it does work. i thanked my body for doing what it can and forgave it for not being able to do what i wish it could.

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