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Inhabit Your Full Space
Health advice for the modern internet woman.
The phrase kept running through my mind. It came to me, unbidden and gently repetitive.
Inhabit your full space!
Stop sucking in your belly. Let yourself be seen as you really are, without fear of judgment. Let your thighs rest on the chair without being conscious of how much space they seem to take up.
It doesn’t matter what the scale says, or how big your emotions get. You are allowed to take up whatever space you need. And for the sake of all that is good and lovely, muffin top is not a fucking crime.
Inhabit your full space.
Be present in each moment, take full breaths and expand into all the space you naturally need to take — physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Inhabit your full space.
Don’t let your mind lapse into projections of the future or contemplations of the past, but be in this moment with as much of your consciousness as you can. Then relax into it.
Inhabit your full space…
Where did the wisdom come from, I wondered. And why? What was the lesson this phrase was seeking to instill?
Who was speaking to me in the space of my own mind?
