On-line Shopping Reviews

This one is for the ladies.

Okay, let's chat for a second about something that tends to get me pretty riled up. Negative self-talk. You know exactly what I mean. It's when you think to yourself that you aren't good enough. Like when your words come out awkwardly and of the sudden your a doofus. Or when you get one bad grade so you instantly become an idiot. Or when your middle-aged body doesn't fit into the clothes you wore in high school so you tell yourself (again) that you're fat. The list of negative self-talk is extensive and varies person to person. But it's a real thing, and to some degree, we all do it.

But just because we all do it doesn't make it right.

I was doing some on-line shopping for some cute Summer clothes today and while I was perusing the product reviews I started noticing a trend. A subtle, but self-degrading trend. Women were using the product reviews section as a medium to express their hatred and disgust with their body. There was everything from "it's perfect because it hides my rolls," to "I love how this isn't too tight on my stomach (I had a baby)."

Ladies. Reading those comments broke my heart. I'm saddened even further when I think about the endless possibilities of other negative things these women say to themselves each day--if they are degrading themselves publicly, I doubt that's the only time they are so harsh on themselves. I am not chastising the women who made these comments. Rather, I am using the comments to illustrate a point. The point being that it is far too easy to focus on the negative rather than the positive.

Your bodies can do some pretty miraculous things. If you get a cut, you can grow new skin to heal it. If you get an infection, your body will fight it off. You can create life. You are worth so much more than you know. You are far more beautiful for what you can accomplish than for how you look in a bathing suit.

You are a walking miracle--miraculous, if you will.

Let's lessen the self-hate and increase the gratitude for how amazing we truly are.