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Our mission: to love ourselves, every last inch! To support others, help build positive self esteem! This is The Body Peace Revolution!

This is a place of encouragement, a place to talk about body image, a place for feeling beautiful. No matter what you look like, what color, what gender, what size or however many "flaws", healthy, not healthy, working on it, we are all human, we all deserve to be happy, we all deserve to love ourselves. With this blog you will see all kinds of REAL bodies, REAL people, REAL stories.

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rampantlinguist:

Guys.

Guyssss.

Why are you doing it to yourself? Why have you created this? Why are you reblogging this? 

Ok, yes, I know why. 1. The magazines and internet are telling you that only a photoshopped woman is beautiful, just to make you buy things (that aren’t even Photoshop). 2. The kids at school or online (or even That Guy) are bullying you and telling you that you’re indeed ugly. So you took it upon yourself to make yourself numb to the pain that others are inflicting on you by inflicting the same pain upon yourself. 

I know why because that’s what I’ve done for most of my life. 

But you know what?

It doesn’t work this way.

 Telling yourself the very same thing the media (which want to sell products at any cost) or the kids at school/online (who would put down ANYBODY just to make themselves feel better) does not make you more numb, accustomed or resilient to the hurt. It makes you even more hurt. It makes you feel even more like shit. It makes you MUCH, MUCH LESS RESILIENT. Because the only person that should be sure to stand up for you - YOURSELF - is also turning their back on you. 

Stop doing it to yourself.

Stop acknowledging the vision of beauty somebody else has (that, well, doesn’t contain you) as your own. Because you know what? It doesn’t have to be your vision of beauty. 

Fuck, it isn’t even the majority of people’s vision of beauty. Mainly because people’s tastes are so different it’s statistically impossible.

Not everyone has to appreciate your beauty in order for you to start appreciating it. You’ll never be appreciated by EVERYONE; it doesn’t happen to anybody.

Think a gorgeous girl, woman or whoever. Your favourite actress. That one lovely girl at school. Can you see her in your imagination? Lovely, isn’t she?

And now realize this: Someone doesn’t like her looks. Someone called her ugly. She thought she’s ugly at least once in her life. She harmed her own body at least once, even if not physically, she did it mentally.

Because that’s how society is. Hurtful to what OR whom they don’t like, trying to put EVERY SINGLE PERSON down.  But you know what? What one person doesn’t like, another will consider gorgeous. Because they don’t have to conform with anybody’s vision of beauty. If That Guy’s vision of beauty doesn’t contain you - he’s not That Guy.

And you don’t have to conform with anyone’s vision of beauty either. You can think you’re beautiful. You can like and love yourself.

You can make a change in your mentality. But it’s up to you, not to somebody’s approval, to make it.

BE BRAVE! JOIN THE BODY PEACE REVOLUTION!