For as many ways as yoga can be helpful and healing, under less thoughtful conditions it can be a hinderance and painful. Yoga offers one option for a safe way to be present in your brain and body, but is not the only way. At times yoga is framed as a way to seek out not only a certain aesthetic but also how one can attain the vague and inspirational marker of ‘wellness’. Which is just.not.very.helpful.
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Healing your relationship with food and your body means being willing to grieve. It means grieving the time you may feel you’ve lost to hating your body and obsessing about food. It may mean grieving the body you’ve always wished you had to make compassionate space for the body you have right now. Or it may be grieving the idea of waking up one day and loving your body in order to give way for the the not-always-fast road to respecting your body.
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