{"id":13045,"date":"2014-11-11T06:20:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=13045"},"modified":"2014-11-11T06:20:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:20:43","slug":"change-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/change-body\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you change about your body? #Iamcomfortablebecause"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you could flip a switch, what one thing would you change about your body? Would you want bigger eyes? A smaller waist? Maybe to be just a little bit taller? Or would you want a mermaid tail?<\/p>\n
Related: Self Esteem + Future Success<\/a>, Veganism is Not an Eating Disorder<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Interviewers asked 50 people – adults and children – what they would change about their bodies, and the answers are so eye-opening. The adult men and women both answered from a place of insecurity. One man wanted smaller ears, because he’d been teased as a kid. A woman said that she was insecure about her forehead.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The kids answered from a place of curiosity and creativity. A little boy wanted a shark mouth so he could eat huge bites of food. One little girl wanted wings so that she could fly.<\/p>\n When I first watched this video, it made me sad. These adults were kids too, at one point. I bet the woman who hated her forehead would have wanted wings or a mermaid tail too when she was young.<\/p>\n After watching a second time, though, it makes me hopeful. Sure, the adults are insecure because of experiences that the kids haven’t had yet. But I also think that there’s a lesson in there about body image. I think those kids’ answers are about more than innocence.<\/p>\n As a mom to a toddler, the thing that strikes me about my son every day isn’t his innocence. It’s his curiosity. He’s constantly in a world of what ifs. What if I tip this over? What if I climb up here? We lose that questioning nature as we get older, but I don’t think that means we can’t get it back.<\/p>\n What if instead of focusing on what we don’t like about our bodies we focused on what our bodies can do?<\/p>\n