This month in Nourishing Movement, we are focusing on radical self-love as inspired by Sonya Renee Taylor. In the Unapologetic Action section of her “Your Body is Not An Apology” workbook, she invites writing a new body story. I was reminded of this essay that I wrote in 2016 but never published.

When did I start hating my body? When? When did I go from being a child living and moving in her skin, eating until I was full, to a woman obsessed with making her body smaller and tighter? When did my body shift from being my vehicle for living and feeling to a vehicle for shame, punishment, and madness? When was the moment that I stopped embodying myself and started judging, criticizing, hiding, and always always working to change myself?