Client Quote # 62: natural changes

If you think about it, there are so many stages in our lives that we won’t achieve unless our bodies shift in some ways - from infancy to teenager, to a fully grown adult, and to old age. As human beings, we continuously change throughout every stage of our lives. And for women, our bodies will change again to accommodate a new life when we go through pregnancy. Our bodies aren’t meant to stay the same forever, so why do we as a society always feel the need to keep our body weight and composition the same forever, or constantly compare ourselves to others who may be in a different stage of their lives? 

We tend to feel shame or react negatively when we see the number on the scale rise, or when we feel our clothes feels a tad tighter, or when we visit family members whom we haven’t seen in a long time and receive unsolicited comments from them regarding our appearance. 

But…this is normal. Our bodies will never naturally stay the same for the rest of our lives. Sometimes, it can feel very hard to move past these sorts of thoughts, even though this is what our bodies are supposed to do. It is healthy to have a body that changes, because that is what living is about.