How To Love Your Body

On today’s episode we will be discussing what body image is,and how to improve it. We will also be sharing about The Loveland Foundation, what it is and how you can help contribute while also improving your own body image. So let’s dive in: What is body image? The dictionary definition is “an intellectual or idealized image of what one's body is or should be like”. Both the words idealized and should hold the power of diet culture. Our ideas of what the ideal body is and what it SHOULD look like come directly from the message that thinner is better and all of the damaging self criticisms that come along with the diet mentality. Body image has much less to do with the way your body looks and much more to do with your thoughts and judgements around what it SHOULD be and what is good or bad in a body. The way to heal your body image is to transform these thoughts and judgements into ones of acceptance and flexibility. Accepting your body does not mean liking the way it looks all the time - it means letti