So, here’s the deal. Love Your Body Day is Wednesday, October 21st, and my goal is to get ALL of you to sign a pledge to be your own body champion. Below, you’ll find The Body Warrior Pledge that I drafted last year. Pledge your desire to champion yourself by hitting the comments section below, sharing with us which statement will take the most determination from you to embrace, and then signing off with your name (check out the comments– I’m first!). Then, send this link to all of your girlfriends who should also be championing themselves and start a mini revolution amongst yourselves. Then, on Thursday (the 15th), Monday (the 19th) and Wednesday (the 21st), I am drawing prize winners (think Byoo-tee tees and Bead for Life jewelry) from all of the folks who have signed the pledge so go ahead and get you and your friends in the drawing. And no fear: if you don’t win a prize the first time around, your name will stay in the bucket for the subsequent drawings!
The Body Warrior Pledge
Because I understand that my love and respect for my body are metaphors of my love and respect for my self and soul, I pledge to do the following:
To stop berating my body and to begin celebrating the vessel that I have been given. I will remember the amazing things my body has given me: the ability to experience the world with a breadth of senses, the ability to perceive and express love, the ability to comfort and soothe, and the ability to fight, provide, and care for humanity.
To understand that my body is an opportunity not a scapegoat.
To be the primary source of my confidence. I will not rely on or wait for others to define my worth.
To let envy dissipate and allow admiration to be a source of compassion by offering compliments to others.
To gently but firmly stand up for myself when someone says to me (or I say to myself) something harmful.
To change the inner-monologue in my head to one that sees possibility not problems, potential not shortcomings, blessings not imperfections.
To give my body the things that it needs to do its work well: plenty of water, ample movement, stretches, rest, and good nutrition, and to limit or eliminate the things that do not nurture my body.
To see exercise as a way to improve my internal health and strength instead of a way to fight or control my body.
To understand that my weight is not good or bad. It is just a number, and I am only good.
To love my body and my self today. I do not have to weigh ten pounds less, have longer hair, or to have my degree in my hand to have worth. I have worth just as I am, and I embrace that power.
To recognize my body’s strengths.
To no longer put off the things that I wish to experience because I am waiting to do them in a different body.
To understand that a body, just like a personality, is like a fingerprint: a wonderful embodiment of my uniqueness.
To give my body the things that it needs to do its work well: plenty of water, ample movement, stretches, rest, and good nutrition, and to limit or eliminate the things that do not nurture my body.
* Rosie Molinary
*o stop berating my body and to begin celebrating the vessel that I have been given. I will remember the amazing things my body has given me: the ability to experience the world with a breadth of senses, the ability to perceive and express love, the ability to comfort and soothe, and the ability to fight, provide, and care for humanity.
*To give my body the things that it needs to do its work well: plenty of water, ample movement, stretches, rest, and good nutrition, and to limit or eliminate the things that do not nurture my body.
My body enables me to conquer my world each and every day relentlessly. Its about time I start appreciating it and saying thank you. : )
My body that I often criticize deserves more respect…after all, those extra curves and soft spots are the results of carrying three beautiful children. How can I criticize the vessel that delivered them to me?
To change the inner-monologue in my head to one that sees possibility not problems, potential not shortcomings, blessings not imperfections.