Thursday, February 26, 2015

This Is What Self Care Looks Like For Women Learning To Love Their Bodies

We asked women to share the habits that help them remember how great they are. Here’s what they had to say.



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This will slot me into every millennial stereotype and sounds almost insufferably narcissistic but I Snapchat a selfie to my close friends every morning (saying good morning, usually, with some high-level pun work included). It takes me about a minute to do, but the act of paying attention to my own face and seeing it in flattering light leaves me feeling super-duper validated all day. —Rega Jha


This is wildly embarrassing to admit but any time I see myself and I think I look good, I'll take a bunch of selfies or shitty mirror pictures. I never post them anywhere, but every time I've felt shitty about myself/body/face/style since I started, I'll literally just flip through all these pictures of myself to be like, Nah self, even if you feel bad about the way you look right now, you KNOW (aka you have photographic evidence) of how good you CAN look five seconds from now.Krutika Mallikarjuna


A thing I have found really helpful lately is trying to channel how I feel about the way my female friends and acquaintances look — which is overwhelmingly positive, regardless of whether they have a body like the one I "wish" I had or one like mine or one bigger or different than mine or any number of variations — and trying to apply that same thought process to myself. I know so many pretty ladies with different kinds of bodies who I think look smoking all the time, so I just try to pretend I'm friends with myself and tell myself that I would totally think I l looked awesome, too. It doesn't ALWAYS work but it helps. —Summer Anne Burton




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