Thin-Spiration. The online phenomenon of ogling bone thin women with the intent of depriving yourself to look like this. Using these images as inspiration and motivation to lose weight, to make yourself "better".
Now I am all for finding ways to keep yourself on track for a healthy and happy life, but this is a trend that disturbs me.
Not that it's new - we have been staring at images of pin-thin cover girls for decades, longing to be just like them. Our modern day role models are less people who change the world and more people who change their bodies to fit the ideal of a modern day woman. We care less about what people have done and more about what they look like. And, most disturbingly, this is how we now judge ourselves.
Thus begins the cycle of inadequacy that leads us to continue to push ourselves to be better. And when we find we cannot reach that impossible ideal, we sink into self-loathing and self-defeating behaviors.
I don't know how we stop this, short of tuning out of media altogether, but I know that we can seek healthy living role models to emulate that boost us up, inspire us and make us want to work hard to be our best.
Bottom line is - when we look in the mirror we need to turn off the voice that compares us to others and tune into the voice that sees the truth of what is in front of us. The voice that confirms the truly valuable parts about us that define us more than what a number on the scale could ever do.
Find Your CORE!
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