Abby

And I mean that, that sounds so cheesy, but I mean that in the sense of like you have to love your body in the sense that like,

you want to do good things for it and like move it and feed it well and also treat it like do those things and then you'll that will be the change rather than like i just despise what i see and that's that's just not going to be long lasting um i feel like this is my conversation my mom

lot like I'm like hey your goals should just be to show up yeah that is amazing that's my only goal is to show up and like I want to do it because I want to do something good for my body because I love my body and I want to be able to do things with it for a long time and so I feel like the motivation has to come from love and not like hate now the self-image part that is hard and

And in the interim, I feel like when I have felt like low self-image times, just going a little bit, like maybe this is bad.

Guys, correct me if this is bad advice, but sometimes I'm like, let me just get myself done up.

Like what time?

And then I just feel like it just like kickstarts me into like, I don't know.

I know.

Okay.

So say I do my mascara and I'm like, oh my gosh, my eyes, like they're really standing out.

And then you start to notice the things naturally about yourself that you really like.

And so it's like less of a crutch and more of just like a,

Kickstart.

I don't know.

Like find things that make you feel more confident.

Like if there's a certain way you do your hair or like a little bit of makeup or an outfit that you feel like really flatters you.

I feel like that's just the thing that you can kickstart you into like social settings in which you're going to have people that are like actually going to like speak life into you and like

fulfill you in other ways and kind of get you out of that headspace where it's like the only thing that matters is like how I look, which maybe that is like how it feels.

But then once you're out like, oh, people like me because I'm funny or people like me because like they like the things I have to say or the energy I bring to a room.

And it's like maybe that's just all it takes to get you in those settings.