This Week's Mindful Morsel 🍪 | October 1, 2025 — my relationship with my body
Happy Wednesday đź’ś
This morning I’ve been reflecting a lot on the state of my relationship with my body, and this is a really tricky subject for me. I’ve not had a good relationship with my body for decades in my life, and it’s only really in the past few years that I’ve deepened and healed it to the extent that I have. And I’ve still got miles and miles and miles to go.
I think our relationships to our bodies are this hub for how we experience life. It’s this strangely reciprocal relationship. How we feel about bodies extends out to how we live in and participate in the world, and how the world is affects how we feel about our bodies.
It affects how we treat others, regarding their bodies and other things. How we talk to and treat ourselves. How we show up to and for others. How we work and play. How we think about social issues and interact with the environment. How we think about the world and our place in it.
I haven’t treated my body well over a large portion of my life. That came in the form of negative self talk, bouncing back and forth between food restriction and overeating, depriving myself of sleep, excessive drinking, unsafe drug use, searching for external validation, dressing in ways to perform a part rather than being myself, etc etc etc.
I don’t do the super unhealthy things anymore, and I really try to enhance my own self-care practices to nourish my whole body, but it’s hard. And sometimes I fall back into my old patterns of negative self image and beating myself up about food choices. And I feel bad about it. Just like I would if I treated someone else like I treat my body sometimes.
If you see yourself in any of that or relate to my experiences, I see you too. And thank you for sharing this space and time with me. And I want to remind us that we have the most concentrated power over what’s within our proximity, which is what’s closest to us: our relationships with our own bodies.
In that spirit, I’d like to share this Dear Body meditation by Diviya Lewis that I found cathartic and nourishing for myself. It’s about 8 minutes long and doesn’t require you to close your eyes or anything, so feel free to listen as you drive or walk or lay down. Let it inspire you to write your own letter or share your experience, and perhaps let it open a portal to a wider and more loving connection with your own body.
I’m open to hearing if anything comes up and you’d like to share.
With kindness and soft energy,
