Just Eilidh

The 5 things body confidence challenge

For a long while the mirror has not been my friend, focusing on the things I don’t like about my body I will cringe at myself in the mirror and quickly chuck on my clothes. I can easily pick faults and very rarely look for anything that I actually like about how I look. The other day I was putting on my makeup, toddler in one arm, juggling her and my mascara smiling and pulling faces in the mirror when I noticed my eyes, that they look kind and I thought to myself that its so rare to look and see something positive. Staring at my beautiful girl alongside me in the mirror I decided my attitude towards myself has got to change, I don’t want her to see me looking at myself the way I do. I want her to grow up with body confident parents. My boys too. I want them to grow up respecting a woman’s body, respecting their own bodies, how can I teach them body confidence when I don’t have it to show them? 

I set myself a challenge, to look in the mirror and choose 5 things I like about my face and body. Then next time I see myself and start to focus on the parts I’m not so keen on I need to remember instead the features that I like. My body has been through a lot, three full term pregnancies and recently I’ve blamed it for things that weren’t it’s fault, and . Its time we start to be friends again.

Finding 5 things wasn’t easy but here they are;

  1. My eyes – I like the blue of them and that they look at my children with love and kindness.
  2. My lips – I like the shape of them and that my children have the same shape as me. 
  3. My waist – I like the fact that it is still there even after three children.
  4. My legs – I like that they are slim, that I don’t have to worry about them.
  5. My hands – I like that they are feminine, my fingers long and dainty. 

I would love for you to join in the challenge. This isn’t just for women as body confidence in men is also so important. If you do, tweet me @mummyandmonkeys and I will retweet and include in a roundup of all the posts. 

PS I know beauty is more than than just the way you look. This is just one aspect of the new being kinder to myself that I am having a go at.

I tag to have a go;

Hannah at

Sian at

Louise at

Maria at

Julie at Pondering Parenthood

 

 

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