How I built a better body image

Breaking free from the tyranny of the paper dolls in my head

Hello! This week we’re talking about body image.

I had a terrible body image, and I took it out on this poor body of mine, which never did anything to deserve it.

But here’s the stinking truth that I don’t want to say out loud. My body isn’t the only one I was judging. I put every one of our perfect, glorious bodies into a hierarchy of worthiness based on a false, one-dimensional scale of perfection in my head.