Developing a positive relationship with our bodies can be challenging when we are flooded with the harmful messages of diet culture and fatphobia. By unlearning this messaging and building our capacity to appreciate our bodies and their function, we can protect ourselves from harmful appearance-related cultural messaging and become less susceptible to their damages. But how do we develop a better relationship with our body? The body positivity and body neutrality movements may be a helpful place to start.

Our relationship to our bodies is simultaneously the most intimate, connected, informed relationship and the most volatile, time-consuming, and fragile one. Our bodies are wise. They house intuition and cues; they know.