レイチェル・ブレイセンのインスタグラム(yoga_girl) - 9月29日 02時09分

This is a cheeky photo I took for my husband; something I’d normally never post. I trust my husband. I don’t trust the internet😅⁣
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I look at this photo and my mind goes to everything that’s “wrong” - the parts of my body that could be better, or align more with the image I have in my head of what “worthy” looks like. ⁣
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Some *barely visible* stretch marks on my stomach, a few extra quarantine pounds, a bit of lose skin... I know one day I will look back at photos of myself from this time of my life and marvel at how beautiful I was, the same way I look at photos of myself from years ago and I marvel now. But today (just like then!), my brain attacks my body and I spiral into unworthiness. ⁣
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Here is the thing: just like with my emotions, I can’t pick and choose which parts of my body I deem worthy and which parts I reject. ⁣⁣
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When I close my heart off to fear, to anger, to anxiety and grief... I also close off to joy, to gratitude, to love and to peace. I can’t keep pieces of my heart open; I either feel or I shut down. A lot of us live in that half way place; keeping our hearts protected against pain but in the process missing out on genuine connection and love. We long to feel loved and to live fully, but actually... We are only half way here.⁣⁣
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I don’t want to live like that anymore. ⁣⁣
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I know now that to experience true, authentic joy I have to allow myself to feel sadness, too. If I want to experience the vulnerability of genuine love and connection I also have to remain open to experiencing the depths of my pain. ⁣
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The same goes with our bodies. By rejecting parts of ourselves, we reject ourselves as a whole. I can’t hate my stomach and love myself at the same time. I am one, whole being. And every time I look in the mirror and deem a piece of myself unworthy, I deem myself unworthy as a whole. By rejecting my stomach I reject ME. ⁣⁣
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I’m done rejecting. I’m done checking the mirror, the internet and society for approval. I want to be here fully. As I am, feeling everything, with all of my heart and all of my body. ⁣
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Showing up for all of my life.⁣
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Don’t we all?

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