When Body Awareness Turns Into Body Evaluation

Love the Body You Have: Begin to appreciate what and who you see in the mirror. · Sep 16, 2026 · 5m

When did your body become something you regularly evaluated?

For a lot of us, that awareness starts much earlier than we realize.

In this episode of Love the Body You Have, I share one of my earliest memories of becoming aware of my body. I was eight years old, standing in an elementary school classroom while our weights were called out in front of everyone. I weighed more than many of the other kids, and I remember suddenly wondering whether there was something wrong with that.

Experiences like that can become one of many layers.

Comments from other people. Clothing sizes. Scale numbers…