Your body is no one’s business but your own. But there’s a good chance other people haven’t received this message. Prepare yourself with how you want to respond when somebody brings up a topic that you don’t want to talk about.

Use the 5 Love Languages to offer love to your body.

I have learned that when we show up as our most vulnerable selves, it will make someone else afraid. They will say that they are afraid for us, and this is especially true if they love us. But they are also afraid for themselves.

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

When I began to rebel against the narratives about my body I’d swallowed wholesale, I used curiosity as a lighthouse beacon. I tapped into the little girl inside me who could ask fifty-seven questions in two minutes without taking a breath. And I let myself believe that there had been a time when I didn’t hate my body.

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