How Do You Deal With Body Shaming?

Your dictionary dot com defines body shaming as the practice of making critical, potentially humiliating comments about a person's size or weight.

The effect can be so great that the victim’s relationship and work will be negatively affected.

As a content creator, I concentrated more on text contents for a long time because I was shy of showing my small body via video contents. 

I used to avoid audio contents too until I learned to love my unique voice. 

I tell you what! 

I had to start telling myself and my friends that:

Anybody fatter than me is too fat

Anybody taller than me is too tall

Any voice thicker than mine is too thick

Everything about me is just perfect

I am wonderfully and fearfully made

\"God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good\". Yeah! I’m one of His creatures and I am very good

I’ve learned to celebrate my gap teeth instead of focusing on the unique effect it has on my audio production. Besides, there are alternative ways of creating audiobooks and other audio contents that I have fallen in love with.

We are in an age where many people prefer audio and video contents to text contents. As a matter of fact, my Facebook live videos gets more engagements than my text contents, so I had to come out of my shell.

Let me buttress a little on this by showing you three important lessons from “Prison of the Mind” By Sean Stephenson.

I don’t know if you have seen that man before but there was a striking comment he made during his speech at TEDx which is “If somebody pities me they are wasting their strength because I’ve chosen to be strong”. 

My question for you is;

What is your choice?   Have you chosen to be strong or to give in to what people say about you?

The three lessons from his speech are:

1. Never believe a prediction that doesn’t empower you, so that you won’t wither away or die physically or spiritually.

2. You are not your condition. The only disability is one’s refusal to adapt.

3. The real prison is in the mind. It sends emotional possibilities, infinite possibilities of choice in our behaviour, life and attitude.

Does this gorgeous lady look like someone who has experienced body shaming (especially when she was on low cut)?  

You can also get over it by working on your mind.

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© Deborah Ajala. Content creator, Ghostwriter, Editor, Author, and Book Publisher.