Kara Swisher
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it's a long road back.
And so what I am findingβ
One day at a time, doing the recovery work around my body and the scale and dieting and binging is this radical self-love and acceptance for this one body that God gave me that I am only putting...
well, let's say 95% of the time, delicious, healthy food into, and that I am honoring and that I am
tending to the way that I would tend to a child, you know, because I always had kind of big thighs relative to my body.
And I wrote a piece about having this moment of radical clarity in a swimsuit on a beach with these teenagers looking at my body.
And I was about 40 and my thighs were not
you know, quite what I had hoped, let's say, and coming to just like all but raise my fist in victory because I felt okay.
And what I lost was that feeling that I am okay.
What you think about my body has nothing to do with what my body and me are about.
So that's what I love.
actively that I'm being restored to that acceptance.
You know what I did this morning after I took my shower?
I rubbed this delicious lotion into these thighs of mine, and I thanked my feet for how far they have brought me.
I think I'm on a constant...
Like this lady in Edinburgh who has a bagel shop.