Hiba

Everyone has bad body image days. Everyone.

Days where you wake up feeling heavier, softer, more bloated. Days where clothes suddenly don’t sit the way you want them to. Days where you look in the mirror and somehow only see everything you wish was different.

And women’s bodies especially; They change constantly. Hormones. Our cycles. Stress. Sleep. Food. Digestion. Water retention. Life.

Don’t let anyone convince you that you’re supposed to look exactly the same every single day. You won’t. And you were never meant to.
But I think sometimes we become so obsessed with what our bodies look like that we completely forget what they actually do for us.

Your body is so much more than something that needs to look good in a picture.
Those arms let you carry the people you love.
Those legs take you places, let you run, walk, train, travel, dance.

That stomach you’re trying so hard to flatten lets you sit around a table and enjoy your mama’s food. It lets you experience dinners with friends, birthday cakes, new restaurants in new countries and all those little moments that make life feel like life.

Your body carries you through long days. It heals. It adapts. It gets stronger. It keeps showing up for you even on the days you don’t particularly like it.

And I know it’s easier said than done. I have those days too.
But on those days, I try to remind myself that this body was never put on this earth just to be looked at. It is here to LIVE.

So wake up grateful for your arms. Your legs. Your feet. Your stomach. Your heart beating without you having to ask it to. Your lungs filling themselves with air.

Be grateful that you get to move. That you get to eat. That you get to experience. That you get to be here.

You don’t have to look like a model every day.
You don’t even have to love what you see in the mirror every day.

But please, love the body looking back at you.
It is doing so much more for you than just trying to look good. 🤍