Love Letter to My Body by Mariah Leigh Kemsley
I’m sorry I have neglected you all these years, and I may have not given you the love you deserve. Today I can stand before you and say I have found forgiveness. I have been ashamed of you when I shouldn’t of been and I know that you needed to be celebrated. I have learned to unlearn, to smile when I see you in my reflection, to see the sun highlight every blemish now feels a lot different then it used to. I don’t stop smiling now, the warmth you give me is like no other as only You know me better than anyone.
I promise to treat you with kindness, to love you, care and admire you for the rest of my life. I worship you for your beauty, every roll, stretch mark, cellulite & curve reminds me of a journey we have been on together. Together we gifted life, we made memories with friends & we grew together. I will embrace you in all your glory, in your rawest state because if I can not love you I can not love myself. You are my vessel, my body and I promise no matter how much we change I will keep on loving you.
Advice from Mariah
To all my gods & goddesses who are on their journey of self love I applaud you, keep on fighting against society’s beauty standards. Every single being deserves to find true self love & acceptance, but loving your body is only a small part of finding self love. Loving yourself truly comes from being completely comfortable, raw & open in every aspect of your being. To accept who you are, to be proud of that person & to love that person is when you will finally feel that weight lift from you. To feel free, free from a formal self and to embrace every fibre of your authentic self. Never feel ashamed of expressing yourself, eat that cake and take a sexy snap while doing it. Rule your own world, create your own magic & own that shit. You define you, never let society make you believe your anything other then a masterpiece.