Take Up Space. We All Need You Here.
You have more important things to do than to endlessly effort to be smaller
Smaller is not worthy of being a life goal.
Smaller is smaller. And the effort required to achieve smaller may quite literally make your life smaller.
You have better things to do than to count out your food. Meticulously. Painfully.
You have better things to do than to dedicate yourself to a life that starts when your body achieves some aesthetic goal.
You have better things to do than to have a good day or a bad day based on a number on a scale.
You have better things to do than to move your body in ways that feel disconnecting or unrewarding or downright painful.
You have better things to do than to work to uphold unrealistic standards of what is considered beautiful.
Open your eyes. Look, actively look, at bodies that don’t look like yours. That challenge cultural norms. That are unique. That maybe make you a bit uncomfortable. THAT is important.
Eyes wide open.
You have better, more important things to do than to effort endlessly to be smaller.
Take up space. We need all of you here.
