Body Positivity

How many of us avoid glancing in the mirror or facing who we really are inside? Evade being in photos or looking at those we’re in? Go through the day feeling the need to hide every thought we have, then get crushed in the knowledge that we’re nothing but imposters? How many start every day with an intention and end it with a failure? How often do we find ourselves trapped by external expectations; weighed down by an impossible ideal based on the vision set by white men decades ago and that society still hangs around our necks; crushed by what supposedly defines us but is in fact bringing us down?
Distorted views of our bodies and ourselves cause too many of us to self destruct. I think it’s time to start honest conversations about body image and identity and the ways that society measures a person’s value. Perhaps it is time to unshackle those golden chains and start shining from the inside.