celebration (Patreon)

let's take this moment to celebrate some little piece of our body that we've found ourselves hating on the most lately. 

for me, that's my stomach. A year ago, I wouldn't have considered posting this picture, simply on the merits of how my body looks. The curve of my stomach would have made me cringe, spend a few hours unable to look at other photos of myself, overwhelmed by my distaste for my own body. I'm getting more comfortable with my stomach, slowly. At first I forced myself to post otherwise good photos where my belly stuck out a little, and tried to ignore how that curve looked. Now it becomes easier and easier to find joy in seeing that curve, or those rolls, the little squish in the middle of my body. 

so I propose a toast to tummies, to feeling that soft belly skin when you rest in bed with your hands there, to how communicative our stomachs are when we eat something they don't want, to the myriad sensations of core muscles flexing in different ways, to how they truly are the center of our being. 

shot by Emily