In my work, I encounter many women who hate themselves and/or their bodies. Their motive to lose weight is usually because they don’t feel acceptable by society's standards and they’re hoping losing weight will shore up a sense of inadequacy or poor self-esteem. Unfortunately, they don’t realize that hatred won’t give them the results they’re looking for.
As a woman, it deeply saddens me to see other women colluding in their own oppression as they waste their precious life energy loathing their bodies and often their very being. I used to be one of these women.
Ladies, don’t you realize this is what a male dominated system wants of you?
As long as you’re busy hating yourself, the system can prey upon you, take your money, your life energy, keep you down, and steal your very soul. For as long as you hate yourself, you cannot achieve your true potential in life. As a woman, you have been given the special gift of bearing life and bringing love to the world. Love is the one and only true power of transformation. You can’t be a vessel of love if you’re busy hating the
vessel you’re carrying it in.
Think of all the time and energy you have put into losing weight and/or beating yourself up about it or your body. Now think how different your life would look if you took that same energy and channeled it towards developing your gifts, career, relationships, and talents. Your world would look quite a bit different wouldn’t it?
