Aug 20, 2026 · 17 min · 9 segments
What if you don't need to love your body? If you've spent years dieting, criticizing your appearance, comparing yourself to other women, or feeling like you're failing because you can't feel…
When body positivity went mainstream, that was a really important and I feel like necessary shift.
I'm proud of my body." And I totally understand what the mainstream movement was trying to say.
All bodies have value, and you don't have to conform to a certain beauty standard in order to feel beautiful and to love yourself and respect yourself.
But what can often happen is that somewhere along the way, we hear this message, and we start to internalize it as, "I should love my body.
I should feel confident." And then when you don't feel that way, you can feel like you're now failing at body positivity too.
Before, it felt like I just had the wrong body, and now it can feel like I have the wrong relationship with my body.
So the point with body positivity is not to now make this into a new goal or standard, and our minds just end up doing that anyways.
But it's realizing that we don't have to meet any standard in order to feel okay in ourselves.
When body positivity went mainstream, that was a really important and I feel like necessary shift.
I'm proud of my body." And I totally understand what the mainstream movement was trying to say.
All bodies have value, and you don't have to conform to a certain beauty standard in order to feel beautiful and to love yourself and respect yourself.
But what can often happen is that somewhere along the way, we hear this message, and we start to internalize it as, "I should love my body.
I should feel confident." And then when you don't feel that way, you can feel like you're now failing at body positivity too.
Before, it felt like I just had the wrong body, and now it can feel like I have the wrong relationship with my body.
So the point with body positivity is not to now make this into a new goal or standard, and our minds just end up doing that anyways.
But it's realizing that we don't have to meet any standard in order to feel okay in ourselves.
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