What I Would Tell My Younger Self: Body Image

This spoken track is a heartfelt reflection on body image and self-worth, starting with my teenage experience of feeling inadequate due to societal and peer pressures. It moves through the struggles of comparing oneself to others and how thinness was idealized, only to shift to a place of wisdom in adulthood. In my thirties, I express empowerment, recognizing that my worth is not tied to my weight or physical changes, but to how I show up for myself and others. The message focuses on embracing self-acceptance and celebrating the body at every stage.

Transcript

If I could talk to my 20-year-old self, I'd say your body is not the problem. I remember being 13 when a girl on my street made a comment about my weight, And I took it to heart like her words had more power than my own. For years I let it sink in, Comparing myself to my friends who were so thin and seemed so perfect with their bodies while I felt out of place. The media told me thin was the only way to be. Stores never seemed to make clothes for bodies like mine curvy, Athletic, Real. But now, Being in my 30s, I've realized something. Your body will change again and again and again, And none of that defines your worth. Now I feel so empowered. I know that my weight will change, It's part of life, But it doesn't define me as a person. What defines me is how I show up for myself, How I treat others, How I embrace all that I am. Thin, Thick, Or somewhere in between. I would tell my 20-year-old self that my body is not my value, And it never was.

Reviews

Wonderful words of wisdom! 🙏🏻☯️🌸

Hit home with a LOUD smack!!!
Words taken to my inner soul - hurtful, judgy, WRONG & UNTRUE words - I carried all these very many years. They were similar to your hurtful words that you too carried.
And as my life is now in the Fall season of my years I have learned and understood … it was UNTRUE. Yes, I had ample curves. And that is exactly how I was made, conveived, created. I am athletic and have been for decades. And guess what? The mouths those hurtful words came out of just had different body compositions than I had.
I say a prayer of forgiveness to myself for carrying those words and that self-image lie all these years. The weight of carrying that
burden - that shameful idea - was so freeing to let go. I must repeat my forgiveness prayer yo myself every day because I carried it for sooo very many days and years and decades that it bares repetition. Thank you Jacks. From Jax across the pond

If I could tell younger me anything, it would be: Everyone is winging it all the time about everything.

Absolutely too much focus on size and weight instead of living a healthy balanced lifestyle, our bodies are amazing tools 💜

Being healthy in mind and body is what really matters, not the images society pushes on us. Thanks Jacks🙏🏻