Guest Writer: Katie Guckien (@Katiegfromkc)
Katie Guckien currently studies elementary education at the University of Missouri, and in the fall of 2014 will attend Semester at Sea. Guckien is from Overland Park, KS just west of the Kansas City area. She likes being lazy, being active, going on long hikes, and watching Netflix. Guckien runs her own blog at http://justyourordinarygirl94.wordpress.com. Opinions are her own.
You always see articles written by powerful people about how you should love your body no matter if you are short, tall, thick, thin, old, or young. They title these articles: “Self Love” and I am a fan, but saying that loving your body is self love is leaving out an extremely important component; loving yourself, body & soul and everything it means to be you.
Often times loving yourself may be overlooked because it is harder to see who you are in the inside. It’s easier to say love your body because you know exactly what your body looks like, you see yourself everyday in the mirror. So, yes, part of loving yourself is loving your body, but there is so much more than just loving who you are on the outside.
So you should definitely master the art of loving your body and owning how you look no matter how imperfect the magazines say you are, but repeatedly teaching young people to focus on loving your body and rarely teaching them about loving you is supporting the fact that loving your exterior is more important than loving your interior, and that is not what we need in our society.
I love how compelled people are to write about how you are beautiful no matter what anyone else says. I love that we have people fighting for what true beauty really is instead of what the media tells us. I love reading what these brilliant writers have to say, but I also believe we need to incorporate more into this self loving process.
Read the articles that all these amazing writers are composing for you, and listen to what they say and believe in what they say, because what they say is important, but don’t just stop at loving your body because there is so much more to you than your outward appearance.
So learn about yourself, think about who you are and what makes you awesome and learn to love that as well. Don’t ever forget that self love means loving your body and loving your heart, brain, thought-processes, stories, sense of humor, and so much more.
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