20 Affirmations to Help You Improve Your RelationshipWith Food and Your Body
Learn how affirmations can be a powerful tool in the tool box when it comes to healing your relationship with food and your body image.
An affirmation, or a mantra, is often a positive phrase that can help help ground you or challenge an unhelpful or negative thought. Affirmations can be helpful during a challenging food or body image day. The way we feel about ourselves impacts the way we talk to ourselves, which impacts the way we treat ourselves.
1) I trust myself to listen to my body
2) This meal doesn’t have to be perfect
3) I can do hard things
4) I will never please everyone and that is ok
5) I choose self-care over self-control
6) My weight and my body size do not define my worth
7) My body deserves to be nourished
8) I am allowed to take up space
9) I can have a challenging body image day and still show my body kindness
10) I am enough, just as I am
11) My body deserves to be nourished, even if I don’t like the way it looks
12) My relationship to my body is like any other relationship in my life. It requires patience, compassion and kindness
13) I will be kind to my body today
14) I deserve joy and happiness
15) My body is my home and I appreciate it
16) Uncomfortable does not mean unsafe
17) The foods I choose to eat do not impact my self-worth
18) Food holds no morality - there are no such thing as good and bad foods
19) I deserve to feel free from negative food and body image thoughts
20) My body is deserving of love and respect
Which affirmation is your favorite? Can you store it away somewhere safe and keep it handy for challenging food and body image days?
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Body image affirmations are a great tool to use, but body image work requires further unpacking, unlearning and healing. As a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, and body image coach, I help clients unpack their body image story so they can learn to befriend their bodies once again.