16 Ways to love your body

16 Ways to love your body

… And escape the self-defeating diet-binge cycle for good 

  1. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude: Remind yourself of the people and things that make you feel grateful.
  2. Develop your compassion: Try to be kind to yourself and others.
  3. Get outraged to get motivated: check out www.aboutface.org to see just how soul-destroying advertising can be.
  4. Reward yourself: Develop a list of non-food rewards and honor yourself liberally.
  5. Empower yourself: Remember each of us is responsible for the life experience we create.
  6. Celebrate you body right now: What is beautiful about it? What is your best feature? Let how you feel about your best feature inform the areas you don’t feel so good about.
  7. Trust yourself: You know who you are and what to do to let your truest self shine.
  8. Be a flexible gatekeeper: can you eat and care for yourself in a loving way that allows for everyday health and occasional healthy splurges?
  9. Cultivate positive thoughts: when you notice a judging or negative thought, can you turn it around and make it a positive one?
  10. Nurture yourself: What can you feed your body and your soul and your spirit to let it grow.
  11. Relax: Take one-minute or even a five-breath pause though the day to center yourself and release tension.
  12. Nice n’easy: Make small easy changes, and over time you’ll see big results.
  13. Be yourself: Avoid adopting habits that you just don’t like to do – you can find enough things you enjoy to make the difference
  14. Connect: Cultivate positive relationships with family and friends.
  15. Celebrate your uniqueness: There has never been another being just like you, and there never will be again.
  16. Develop your strengths: what do you feel passionate about? How can you bring more of it into your life?
Thrive Movement

Thrive Movement

Do you ever feel like there’s so much wrong in the world, yet we’re on the verge of something extraordinary?
Then you have a friend in Foster Gamble, and you might consider joining his club at Thrive. In the movie available for viewing on the site, Gamble draws on everything from free energy, alien intervention, corporate conspiracy, and more to present a case for why we aren’t thriving as we could be in this world, and what we might do to move things along.
Go, Foster. Regardless of if the whole thesis is as well-researched and valid as presented or not, it’s great food for thought. I’m inspired – reaffirmed in my mission to decrease the suffering so many feel with regard to eating in this complex and toxic food environment, and with their own bodies.  I think Thrive may help you too in finding, or in reaffirming, part of your own life mission.