04.16.07
Claiming our Bodies As Home
In honor of the first Monday since I launched the new site, I’m going to link to an article I wrote about how I approaching living in my body.
Over the course of the past five years or so, I’ve been trying to come to terms with my body as it is and try and “figure it out.” I’m a problem solver and my relationship with body was just another thing to figure out, right? Perhaps you can see how it took me a while to work through my basic assumption that was, I can tell you with great confidence now, wrong. My body is not a problem. My body is a wondrous solution. My body is the answer. I don’t like the word “overweight” because it implies that my body is reacting to my environment in ways that are counter to my well-being. I realize that’s not an intuitive statement considering how much information about the dangers of obesity are bandied about these days, but my body always acts in my best interest.
