{"id":3369,"date":"2025-06-03T01:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graceful.co.ke\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2025-06-03T01:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:12:28","slug":"my-body-is-not-a-problem-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.graceful.co.ke\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"My Body Is Not a Problem to Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For so long, I thought my body was something I had to fix. Like it was wrong until proven worthy\u2014too soft, too big, too different. I\u2019d stand in front of the mirror and zero in on every part that didn\u2019t match what I\u2019d been taught to admire. And somewhere along the way, I stopped seeing my body as <em>mine<\/em>. It became a project, a burden, a thing to manage or hide or punish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But my body isn\u2019t broken. It\u2019s not a mistake. It\u2019s a living, breathing part of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m learning to see it that way now. The way the trees grow in all their crooked beauty. The way rivers curve and stretch in their own rhythm. The way animals rest, eat, stretch, survive\u2014without shame. My body is no different. It\u2019s doing its best, adapting, carrying me, holding memories I\u2019ve lived through. It is not here to please the world\u2019s impossible standards. It\u2019s here to carry <em>me<\/em>. To <em>be me<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve stopped trying to make it smaller. I\u2019ve stopped punishing it for being tired. I\u2019ve started listening\u2014to hunger, to pain, to tension, to joy. And in doing so, I\u2019ve started coming home to myself. This body has held grief, carried babies, survived loss, laughed until it hurt. This body is not a problem. It\u2019s proof that I\u2019m still here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t need to \u201cfix\u201d what was never broken. I need to honour it. Care for it. Be kind to it. My body is nature, and nature doesn\u2019t apologise for taking up space. Neither do I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For so long, I thought my body was something I had to fix. 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