ベス・ロッデンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ベス・ロッデンInstagram)「When I was 16 years old one of my climbing heroes told me that she lost 5 pounds before every competition and gained it back afterwards. It felt like a perilous example for a teenager navigating a changing body in a sport that championed thinness. I started losing weight before every competition, but not gaining it back. I saw it as another tool to get me on the podium. It wasn't until 19 that I started my period, I felt like a failure. // A few years ago, I was climbing with my favorite group of mamas, lamenting changes in my body. I grabbed my soft postpartum belly and joked "how do I get rid of this?" We all laughed but I saw my son watching me, soaking in everything I was saying. // Motherhood has been a crystal clear reflection of who I am and who I want to be. I realized I was now the one setting a perilous example. // My postpartum body has led to the most strength and growth. I started to ask myself why I wanted to hide that under baggy t-shirts or behind scornful self dialogue? It's taken me years to change what I tell myself, and it's still constant work, but this past year I've been baring that soft belly with pride instead of fear. There have been moments of questioning, but mostly it's been liberating. Hoping these posts can help free others from the destructive way we've been taught to view our bodies. Let's start celebrating normal. // Pics: In the magical forest of Fontainebleau this past spring, at my happiest and most at peace with climbing in decades ... and at my thinnest in climbing competing in the San Diego X-Games in 1997? @outdoorresearch @touchstoneclimbing @metoliusclimbing @bluewaterropes @ospreypacks @skinourishment @clifbar @lasportivana」11月13日 3時44分