Ashley Jamesのインスタグラム(ashleylouisejames) - 8月3日 05時54分

It’s ok if you don’t love your body. Sometimes the pressure to love ourselves can feel overwhelming.

And the truth is, were fighting against unrealistic beauty standards, body types that are trends, a diet industry that profits from convincing us perfectly normal things are flaws. A new mother isn’t even given the grace to recover in a healthy way without conversation about her body and bounce back culture.

I’ve come a long way on my self love journey, and I’d say it’s definitely not a linear journey.

On my bad body image days, I just don’t let my mind bully my body.

We don’t do that anymore. I remind myself of all the pressures. The fact that the beauty standards is unrealistic even for the faces and bodies of it because they get touched up...

I just stop and say, you don’t have to love your body but you can appreciate it.

I sometimes like to imagine I’m like a tapestry, and each mark and blemish is a story of my life.

My scar tells the story of my C-section. The moment Ada came into the world.

My stretch marks - tattoos from mother nature commemorating when my body stretched and grew.

My b00bs - not as perky as they once were - have fed my beautiful children.

My tummy - it’s slightly more stretched than before and my abs are gone. But it was my babies home. And that’s quite a lovely thing I wouldn’t trade.

And suddenly those perceived flaws seem quite magical. ✨💙🙏

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