It struck me.

At the height of dealing with an eating disorder, I had become disconnected from so many things. Numbing out to hunger cues, often numbed me out to internal cues in general.

Furthermore, rules around movement and food so often become a life script when struggling with disordered eating and being a slave to diet culture. And in a culture so immersed in unhelpful messages around food and our bodies, I wonder how many of us experience this to varied extents, eating disorder or not.

Melissa KucharskiMay 10, 2021dietculture, eatingdisorder, eatingdisorders, dieting, diet, melissajohnson, impossiblebeauty, soulcare

Women at War With Their Bodies

The moment she said it, something shifted in me.

I was fairly new to yoga, so I wasn’t used to wise instructors’ words resonating so deeply.

“Thank your body for all it does for you every day.”

“Thank my body?” I thought to myself. It felt so odd to me. No one had ever invited me to thank my body for what it does. I never considered thanking my body at all.

BlogMelissa KucharskiAugust 15, 2019Impossiblebeauty, minneapolis, healthblogger, empoweringwomen, eatingdisorder, women