Sue Swift/Suz deMello:

I liked this so much I thought I’d pass it along.

Originally posted on Disrupting Dinner Parties:

So many of the posts I’ve written over this past year have dealt, in one way or another, with learning to love and accept myself as I am. I’ve written about my struggles with

infertility

,

body acceptance,

depression

,

perfectionism

,

more body acceptance

. . .

Over and over, I’ve talked about learning to reject the internally and externally imposed judgments and criticisms for my perceived failures as a woman in our world. And over and over, I’ve moved through those pieces from a place of struggle and self-loathing to a place of strength, love, resolve, triumph. Sometimes, writing the post itself was the catalyst that brought clarity to my thoughts and took me from incredible pain to something approaching peace. The catharsis of communication is real, and powerful.

And yet. Two days after writing my most recent body-acceptance post, I was sobbing on the floor of my…

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