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Natural Beauty

If you can look at this picture of fallen down trees and weeds and think “Yes, it is natural beauty,” can you not look at yourself and think the same? Many of my long time readers have purchased my book “My Cats Have Seen Me Naked: How I Achieved Self-Love and Self-Acceptance While Obese” and you know first hand that I totally tout the Kingdom of Within.

I know that we teach best what we most need to learn, so trust me on this one, okay?  “Within” is where you need to get to if you want to love and accept yourself regrdless of the size, weight, color, height or any external attribute of your body.  Your appearance does one thing only:  it tells you what you have been thinking about  yourself.  Nothing else.

You know those skinny girls who are fashionistas?  Their bodies are considered all hot.  Want to know what they telegraph to me?

• I am only what I look like.
• I can be judged and criticized by my appearance.
• Insecure men use me for arm candy.
• I’m so fragile that if I gain 3 lbs., I think my body is ruined and so am I.
• I judge things only by appearance.
• I am a conformist and do not think for myself.
• I think relationships are based only on appearance.
• I think thin bodies signify something other than immaturity.
• I don’t understand that mature bodies are supposed to get thicker as the years go by if not manipulated unnaturally.

My heart goes out to these youthful mentalities.  They haven’t as yet discovered the aspects of the kingdom within themselves where they are the Queen but they act like a quivvering upstairs maid!

When’s the last time you permitted yourself a decent, normal, well-rounded, healthful meal?