Learn To Appreciate Your Body By Listening to It
Science links interoception and body image.
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6 min readSep 18, 2020
Like many people, my relationship with my body has mostly been one of self-flagellation. As genetics didn’t gift me the ideal body, I spent most of my twenties and thirties exercising my form down to a neutral shape. I wasn’t listening to my body. I was fighting against it.
