Powerful reflective piece. Thank you, Ellie Guzman.

Obviously, the skinnier versions of ourselves are often considered alpha in our society, thus creating disordered thinking: in order to avoid terrible feelings of powerlessness, we inadvertantly have to buy into a sort of disordered national point of view. I feel you.

I grew up in Beverly Hills, so the 1st 20 years of my life, I felt fat. BTW, I wasn’t ever fat, but I didn’t enjoy the waif like body type that seemed to be so easily achieved by the ladies walking through my neighborhood.

That started my cycle of feast-or-famine, fasting or binging that would eventually create an actual weight problem, and distorted self image.

Good for you, doing the hard work of choosing balance and self-reflection over the illusion of power or perfection. Tough road and inspiring to observe.

Did I say thank you❤?