You Don’t Have to Love Your Body

We’re so often told to love our bodies. No matter how they look, how they feel, or what they do, love them. Unconditionally. 

In contrast to the ten thousand reasons we’re given to hate and despise our bodies, this is definitely a step in a better direction. 

But this is yet another impossible standard to live up to.

Truth is, even those of us who genuinely love our bodies have days when we don’t. Our bodies let us down. They ache and hurt. They can’t do something they could just a few years ago. They get sick, they break down, they inexplicably can’t conceive, they age, and they die. 

If we are honest, our relationships with our bodies are complex. We might love them and feel immense grief for the ways they’ve seemingly betrayed and disappointed us. 

The act of taking our bodies back does not require that we unconditionally love our bodies and feel good about them all the time. Rather, it invites us into a relationship with our bodies that has room for the full, messy range of our experience, from love to grief, rage to ecstasy, hatred to gratitude.

Join us September 9th - 12th for a camping immersion to begin or continue to cultivate this kind of relationship with your body held by a community of women, an aspen grove, mountains, and all of the beings seen and unseen who offer their support. We would love to have you join us.