This collection is a follow on from "A Weight Off My Mind". It will be addressing and reflecting on the pressures in society to look a certain way and the struggle of not fitting into a perceived "ideal" category. There will be positive reflection...
Let's talk about bodies! We all have them. If we didn't we wouldn't be here, so that makes them something pretty fucking special, yea? Yea. Pretty special, but. And this is a big but (excuse the pun), we don't always treat them pretty special do we?
We compare them, we analyse them, we berate them, we hate them, we abuse them, we starve them, we stuff them, we break them and eventually we leave them. How sad is that? The one thing that gives us a presence on this earth and we do all of that? How do I know this? Because I do most of these things on a daily basis.
I previously wrote a poem book called "A Weight Off My Mind - A Time To Live" (please check it out) and I wrote it because I wanted to accept my body. I wanted to flood my mind with positivity and go against all of societies judgements and say "I love my body!" and whilst I felt very uplifted by writing body positive messages and poems, there would be days when I just couldn't feel the words.
It's impossible to actually stay positive, all the time. Many factors will be in play. How you feel that morning, how your clothes feel when you put them on, how you feel when you look in the mirror, how much you eat throughout the day, a comment someone makes about fat people or skinny people or tall people or short people etc, an article shaming a celebrity for daring to gain 6 pounds or celebrating another for losing 20 in 14 days after having a baby! The factors are endless and they are relentless. We sadly live in a society where body image is everything. Every day we are either reminded we don't fit in or shown ways to try and achieve fitting in. It's all bullshit.
I've struggled with my weight since my early teens and there have been times when I have been so happy with my body and ironically those times have not been when I have been at my thinnest. It's all about how you feel. Getting to that place where you feel happy, loving and accepting of yourself is the ultimate goal. Not what numbers someone tells you should show on the scales or what size you are buying of the clothes rack. None of that matters if you don't feel good inside.
This book will be a collection of works that will reflect how I am truly feeling. There will still be body positive messages flooding out as I truly do believe we need to build each other up. However, there will days when I am wallowing, when I am feeling zero self worth. These will be just as important as the positive ones. For we all have bad days, we all have hellish days. It's about accepting them, accepting that no one feels content in themselves 24/7. We all need to know this, so that we stop feeling so damn alone.
I hope you enjoy anything that you take the time to read in here and know that I appreciate any time given and hopefully there will be a smile along the way.
All the best, H x
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