Maybe this year we could take away the ‘summer body’ pressure,
no questions asked.
Maybe this year we could just embrace summer, rolls and all, and be absolutely deserving of the joy that sunshine brings after a winter of discontent.
Maybe we could all admit, that having gone through the hardest collective year, we can’t possibly be reemerging in pristine condition.
Maybe, we could just abandon ourselves to the lull of the summer breeze and float through the blissful long days full of light and laughter, languishing and loved (by ourselves).
And.
If we can do that, maybe we can repeat it every year too?
Because every year we deserve to just be who we are, regardless of this ‘bikini body’ we are all supposed to seek.
We are humans,
not mannequins.
And summer is a gift we haven’t been making the most of, for the wrong reasons.
So, lets cancel the summer body.
Bodies are not seasonal, nor are they responsive to expectations.
You’re beautiful, in any shape or size and you are alive, you survived to see another summer and that’s the only truth you need to know.
Donna Ashworth
Author ‘to the women’ and ‘the right words’
Art by Melinda Rodrigues
We are not made from a blueprint and we cannot possibly be enjoying life to the full if our appearance is at the front of everything.
A bikini body is something sold to us by the industries who thrive when we punish ourselves for nothing more than our natural state.
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