I’m gonna do a read aloud from Love Notes to My Body. This is the book that I wrote on my own journey to make peace with my body, to learn to just love myself a little, and eventually a lot. Love Notes to My Body was written by me, of course, and illustrated by Mica Gadhia, who has her own amazing memoir called Open In the Front, which I highly recommend you also check out for some self-love inspiration.

Release the guilt you may feel when you hear that you can’t love others before you love yourself.

Loving and hating your body are two extremes. You don’t have to move from hating your body to loving it.

Our bodies can help us better understand our feelings than our minds can.

A simple way to use your breath to take a pause before reacting.

When you’re healing, whether physically or emotionally or mentally, your body needs extra rest.