Finding Johanna

WOMEN: We’ve learned  that our bodies are wrong and we should be constantly trying to change the way it looks. We’ve learned our body defines who we are and that thinness is the only way to be successful and desirable. We can only obtain happiness through the pursuit of thinness and the size our body determines our social currency.  Treat yourself with respect, kindness and compassion because dieting is actually disrespecting yourself with cruelty and mental abuse. By saying we cannot accept our bodies until we’re a certain weight or size - we are saying that we cannot be happy and we will never feel contentment with who we  are EVEN if we get to our ideal weight or size.  T he problem will never be how much you weigh and what your body size is -the problem will always be how we talk to ourselves and how we value our life based off of societies views of what we should look like. Society has really fucked women up because essentially it has taught us from a very young age that our job

  There are things in your life that have purpose and value outside of your body. I don’t want to spend my life obsessing over how my body looks. I’m a good person I don’t have to qualify by being a certain size and I don’t owe anyone my thinness.   Body dissatisfaction and coping through righteous eating and creating a disordered eating mindset is directly linked to mental health issues. I didn’t know I had a problem until I recognized my mental state was so bad. I had severe anxiety and started to have depression symptoms. I was mentally exhausted hating myself and trying to find self love by eating perfectly and getting as thin as possible. Your body is the longest relationship you’ll ever have and it’s diet culture that makes you believe that at some point there’s this end where you just suddenly don’t have to take care of your body or have these conversations of dissatisfaction because you made it to a certain weight.  If you talk about hating your body what you’re really saying i