You Can Want to Change Your Body and Still Appreciate It

Love the Body You Have: Begin to appreciate what and who you see in the mirror. · Oct 2, 2026 · 7m

Can you be proud of your body without being proud of how it looks?

I think that is a much more nuanced question than it first appears.

You can appreciate what your body does. You can be amazed by what it has carried you through. You can also look at certain parts of yourself and wish they were different. Those things can exist at the same time.

Where I think we have to be careful is when changing our appearance becomes the thing we believe will finally make us feel better about who we are.

In this episode of Love the Body You Have, I talk about the difference between wanting to change…