I’m starting this post 11/2/09 and I will publish right away and update until I get to 101. I’m including only positive statements – nothing that’s positive, but even hints at self-deprecation (I like __, but…; I love __, even though…). Feel free to create your own list and link to this post – I’d love to add links below my list of all of the positive things that others have to say about themselves!
11/10/09 – I’m changing this to a list of reasons I am happy just the way I am TODAY(with special thanks to Ivory for the bigger inspiration;) I do believe that I could think of 101 Reasons I Love My Body, but I think that it’s just so much more important to focus on a larger picture of why we love ourselves JUST AS WE ARE – body, mind and spirit. My body is only one piece of the puzzle that makes up “me.”
1. I love my freckles.
2. I love my hair color – no one else has a color quite like it.
3. I love my hands,
4. Especially my strong, nice nails.
5. My breasts are LARGE and have more than provided milk easily for my two beautiful babies.
6. I love that my legs are so strong and sturdy.
7. I love the way my body feels when I stretch.
8. I love that my body nourished, grew and blessed me with two amazing children.
9. My body is a soft, warm place for my kids to snuggle.
10. I have nice feet.
11. I like my pale skin.
12. I love how I look in any shade of pale aqua or blue.
13. I love how I feel about myself in the evening when I’m rocking my kids and inhaling every morsel of their sweet baby scents.
14. I love that I don’t often feel the need to defend the way I feel about things – if I care about, I know that what I truly believe in my heart is what matter, not how someone else perceives it.
15. I care about more than just my weight. At the end of the day when I’m alone with just myself, when I’m with my kids or my husband, I’m proud of the human being that I am.
16. I love that this body has carried me through everything in life so far and I’m still going and so very blessed.
17. I love that this body carried me to Haiti and allowed me to see more of the world than I ever imagined.
18. I love that this body (AND MIND) have allowed me to try to understand on a daily basis how I can be grateful and conscious of how truly blessed I am when I think that things are getting difficult.
7 Responses to “101 Reasons I’m Happy Just the Way I Am Today”
This is a great post and I’m totally going to steal it for my blog later this week.
Hope you don’t mind!
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[...] challenging everyone reading this to make yourself a list of 101 Thing You Love About Yourself – including at least 25 about your body! It doesn’t need to be public or on a blog – [...]
I’m totally stealing this, too.
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[...] 14, 2009 my friend lillian inspired me to start this list. she started her own list on her blog, and will be adding to it until she reaches 101 reasons. this is just the beginning [...]
[...] I’m still working on a list of 101 Reasons I’m Happy Just the Way I Am Today – care to join me? Name Email Website [...]
[...] Categories: Uncategorized Inspired by my friend Lillian (who has a great blog you can visit here) started her own list…its taken me a while to sit down and start mine, but here I go! I [...]
I love your post!!! Thanks for spreading the idea
I will put up an ongoing list on my blog as well!