Jillian Michaels

I always wanted to actually have thighs like that girl, Sha'Carri.

Have you seen that girl?

the way a sidebar holy shit that woman's body's insane and she's not stick thin or a zero um the most amazing uh olympian my god but anyway the point is listen i think the the white supremacy is the same thing as the billboard is the same thing as the television ad is the same thing as the seat belt i think it is all and it is real okay i think it is all a reflection of

of the feeling that you were not good enough, not as good as everybody else, not fit for prime time, and because that has been your psychological reality, you see the entire world through those lenses.

It is not to tell you, okay, I'm not trying to take away the fact that there are similarities there.

What I'm trying to tell you, and this is where I said, one of the reasons I say body positivity

can be disempowering is because when you're so busy focusing on white supremacy and the Victoria's Secret ad and the seatbelt, you're externalizing the shame.

It's like, they made me feel this way, they made me feel this way, they made me feel this way.

Now, could they be engaging in behavior that shames people?

Sure, but you're still allowing it and it's because it's something that has taken root.

What I'm trying to say is that over time, you become the thing that you didn't get and as an adult, you're capable of giving it.

As a child, you're not.

But as an adult, you are able to care for yourself and love yourself and feed yourself in the ways that you were not able to as a child and dependent on the parent to do once you are in a place where you are enough on your own two feet

None of this external shit will matter.

Any community that is going to judge you or disown you

for deciding to explore certain elements of your health, be it physical or psychological, is not a healthy community.

And the reality is that the cream always rises.

What's that stupid Dr. Seuss quote that everybody says, like the people that mind don't matter and the people that matter don't mind?

Let life filter out the toxic elements for you.

It's a gift.