One Simple Way to Inspire Body Positivity Among Your Friends

Recently, I was on a hike with three of my girlfriends. We were climbing the final stretch to the 1979 meter summit and had paused for breath, exhausted by the stony incline. We were sweating and — real talk —two of us were on our periods. In other words, we felt gross.

As we rested, one of my friends mentioned something offhand about her body that she didn’t like. I wasn’t feeling the greatest about my body either — I felt bloated and had that “fat” feeling.

Normally, this kind of comment triggers a round of “body trash talk.” You probably know the kind — everyone starts talking about what they don’t like about their body: what we wanted to lose or how much we’d eaten or how much we weighed and how we should be “better” and stop “binging” or breaking our diet plans.

I’ve almost always been around women who have found it easy to commiserate over what we don’t like about our bodies and what we want to change, but it’s rare to be in a circle of women talking about what we like.

….Read the rest on Medium

I’m experimenting with writing on Medium in order to build my writing portfolio, so I wrote this there. Hope you check it out!