So What If You Have Rolls?

So what if your belly gets bigger?
So what if your thighs touch?
So what if your arms are flabby?

So what?

I mean, what’s going to happen?
Who’s going to kill you?

What’s the worst thing that can happen if you have one more roll on your belly?

I mean, really?

So what if your body isn’t “perfect”?

It is though, you know.
It is perfect.

Maybe not in the eyes of our current insane beauty ideal, but your body is exactly as she was meant to be.

So what if you don’t have a six pack?
So what if you don’t have long skinny arms?
So what if your face doesn’t look gaunt?

I mean, really.

What’s happening as a result of that?
What’s SO BAD about not being thin?

What’s the part that’s ruining your life?
The part that’s hurting you so so much?

It’s just fat.

It’s just tissue.
It’s just your body.

AND it IS your body.
A glorious, wondrous, magical body.

One that is STILL full of mystery.
One that is STILL full of magic.
One that is STILL not fully understood.

So what if you have cellulite?
So what if you have rolls?
So what if you have stretchmarks and fat?

I mean, really?
So what?

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself so what?
Have you ever really investigated the motives behind your pain?
Have you ever looked at your body and seen the body,
not the shame,
not the guilt,
not the apparent failure
and moral wrongdoing?

Have you ever
asked
so what?

So what if your body is your body
And not hers?

So what if your body has this shape
And not that?

So what if your body is different
And not, hmmmm, that other kind of different that you oh so want?

Is it keeping you from living your dreams?
Is it keeping you from having it all?
Is it keeping you from fulfilling your deepest desires?

Or is it your fears, your shame, your limiting beliefs that do all that?

So, really,
so what?

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