Glennon, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the reminder! Our society has misplaced values, our physical appearance does not define us! Delice, i can completely relate as i had postpartum depression after each of my four children, ages 8 and under, the youngest is 2….and still struggle with depression due to the tragic death of my dear sister 2 yrs ago. I honestly think that woman beeing reduced to their body, fertility, looks, age and such is the most common reason for woman to fail in achieving their life-log goals or even setting them beyound looking “good, skinny etc.” or getting someone to marry them. I think, if we, as woman kind, can ust accept ourselfs regardless of anything else than what we are and what qualities we have as a person, we can not only overcome anyhing life throws in our way more easily, but we can set goals more freely and achieve more both careerwise as in private, as in our passions and in our progress not just as a woma, but as a person. While man are to look after themselfs regarding their hygene and looks, they are not that judged upon every single “flaw” they have, while a woman is often taught that she has to see herself as a piece of meat that has to be cut probaply for human consumption. While man can just go and go and go for their goals, woman are ofte trapped into thinking of themselfs as something that has to be tunned to perfection-what ever that may be, both to atrackt man as to make woman jealaous and to atrackt attention. ![]() I honestly think that there are so many man who set goals careerwise and regarding their financial status, and so many man who go after their goals they set regarding private relations and activities, but yet so many woman who have like no or very little goals careerwise ,and regarding other sections of their life, is because woman are trapped in the believe that they have to look, and even more, have to even make their body look a certain way, to be “perfect” or “beautiful”. I give myself and my life the style I want to. Then pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU. Say THANK YOU to your eyes for taking in the beauty of sunsets and storms and children blowing out birthday candles and say THANK YOU to your hands for writing love letters and opening doors and stirring soup and waving to strangers and say THANK YOU to your legs for walking you from danger to safety and climbing so many mountains for you. No wait - first, stop what you are doing and say THANK YOU to your body - right now. The truth is that all paintbrush shapes work just fine - and anybody who tells you different is trying to sell you something. Maybe we continue to obsess because as long we keep wringing our hands about our paintbrush shape, we don’t have to get to work painting our lives. We are encouraged to obsess over our instrument’s SHAPE - but our body’s shape has no effect on it’s ability to accept and offer love for us. Your life’s work is the love you give and receive - and your body is the instrument you use to accept and offer love on your soul’s behalf. Be grateful, because without it you’d have nothing with which to paint your life’s work. ![]() Don’t sit in a corner wishing you had a different paintbrush. ![]() ![]() It’s just a really amazing instrument which you can use to create your offering each day. What is relevant is that YOU HAVE A PAINTBRUSH which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life - where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. Your body is not your masterpiece - your life is.
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