Body Positivity

Most often, our own, self-conscious feelings about how we look are just exactly that - the reality is that friends and family respond to who a person is more than their appearance. Let us help you address this issue.

The demands of society and social media incorrectly force us to question who we are and how we look. For some, this becomes all-consuming and overtakes their lives, losing perception of themselves. Any slight imperfection becomes magnified leading to obsessive and disordered behaviour. This can manifest in disordered eating, exercise, constant body checking and body dissatisfaction.

Unfortunately, sometimes people use food to take control of their life but eventually the disordered eating ends up controlling them. Their emotions, thoughts, behaviour, and actions. One problem with this strategy is that food is essential to provide the body with nourishment and essential vitamins, and minerals that it requires it to function optimally. A lack of food for example, starves the body and brain causing them to procrastinate, metabolism slows, the body cannot maintain temperature, the immune system suffers and starves vital organs with essential nutrients. Shrinkage occurs in the heart, lungs and in woman the ovaries. All this can be reversed by normal eating, 3 meals a day and a couple of snacks. Ideally, the body requires nourishment every three hours.

We are more than our bodies. It is a superficial world that judges people by how they look, what they wear and do. It is very difficult to live up to this ideal and one has to ask, is it going to make you happy. It is better to change your mindset, so you can enjoy life, the wonderful fresh food we have to choose from and to be comfortable in the body we have been given and enjoy experiences with family and friends.

Disordered eating can take up a lot of thinking time and grey matter. Time that could be devoted to learning a new language, studying something you are interested in or expressing yourself creatively. Life holds many opportunities and one should live by your values, not those dictated by society, which generally doesn’t care about the person behind the face.