Jameela Jamil

It means treating your body like an engine that needs to be nourished and cared for.

And I don't say bad things about my body in the mirror anymore.

And I don't treat it with the disdain that we have been trained.

We've been trained to teach our bodies like they are some sort of disobedient disgrace.

Yeah.

Yeah, yes, agreed.

Like a hindrance.

But also again, your body wasn't allowed to be your own in such a formative period of time.

Yes.

And I'm super disconnected from my body, but that's why I think I had to do EM.

I wouldn't have thought that.

No, but that's why I have to personify it.

I have to look at it as this separate being that I've been gifted the privilege of looking after because I can't feel it.

I don't feel pain.

So I've learned to intellectualize it and go –

If this was someone else's body, if this was the body of my best friend and she gave it to me to look after, what would I do for it?

I would look after it.

I would be gentle with it.

I would think about its hormones and how to honor those hormones.

And I would think about its cycle and its needs and what it needs to eat today.