Why Loving Your Body Feels Hard (and Why It’s Not Your Fault)
Most of us weren’t raised to love our bodies.
We were raised to correct them, shrink them, compare them, and criticize them.
From childhood to adulthood, we hear messages like:
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“Fix this.”
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“Change that.”
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“You’re not enough yet.”
No wonder it feels so foreign—even uncomfortable—to genuinely love the body you live in.
But here’s the truth:
You are not born hating your body. You learned it.
And anything learned can be unlearned.
This is where Louise Hay’s work becomes life-changing.
The Louise Hay Approach: Your Thoughts Create Your Reality
Louise Hay taught that:
“Every thought we think is creating our future.”
and
“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
Her philosophy is simple:
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Your body responds to love.
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Healing begins with self-acceptance.
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What you speak becomes what you believe.
And the most powerful tool she taught?
Affirmations.
Affirmations redirect your inner dialogue so your body hears something new—something healing, supportive, and loving.
How Negative Self-Talk Impacts Your Body
Negative body thoughts aren’t harmless. Research shows they increase:
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cortisol (stress hormone)
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inflammation
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emotional eating
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fatigue
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anxiety
Louise Hay believed every emotion and thought affects the body physically.
When you think:
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“I hate my stomach.”
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“My body is wrong.”
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“I’m not enough.”
Your body responds with:
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tension
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stress
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stored weight
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tightened digestion
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disrupted hormones
Because it doesn’t feel safe.
And healing cannot happen in a body that feels unsafe.
🌸 Love Your Body Affirmations (Louise Hay Inspired)
Say these daily, out loud if you can.
Your body is listening.
1. “I deeply love and appreciate my body.”
2. “My body is my friend, and I treat it with kindness.”
3. “I am learning to feel safe in my body.”
4. “Every day, I become more connected to myself.”
5. “I nourish my body because it deserves love.”
6. “I release all criticism. I choose compassion instead.”
7. “My body is strong, wise, and capable.”
8. “I am grateful for everything my body does for me.”
9. “I choose thoughts that support healing.”
10. “I feel at home in my body.”
Save these. Repeat them. Write them on your mirror.
How to Use Affirmations for Real Transformation
Affirmations work when used consistently and with intention.
✔ Say them daily
Preferably morning and night.
✔ Say them when you look in the mirror
This is a Louise Hay signature called mirror work.
✔ Say them when old thoughts show up
Interrupt criticism with compassion.
✔ Say them while doing nourishing habits
Smoothies, supplements, meal prep, skincare…
Pairing affirmations with action magnifies results.
🌿 Daily Rituals to Fall in Love With Taking Care of Yourself
Here are small daily practices that help you fall in love with your body again:
1. Morning Hydration + Daily Greens Ritual
Start the day with water + Daily Greens to show your body love through nourishment.
2. A Loving Breakfast
Not restriction, but fuel.
Smoothies, fruit bowls, oats — foods that say “I care about how I feel.”
3. Healing Turmeric Before Bed
A warm, soothing evening ritual that grounds your nervous system and reduces inflammation.
4. Gratitude for Your Body
List 3 things your body allowed you to do today:
walk, hug, digest, breathe, think, feel.
5. Movement as Celebration
Move not to change your body—
move to connect to your body.
Walks, yoga, dancing in your kitchen.
These rituals create safety.
Safety creates healing.
Healing creates change.
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💛 Your Body Is Listening
Your body has carried you through every season of life—
every chapter, every challenge, every joy.
It deserves your love.
It deserves your patience.
It deserves your care.
Little by little, affirmation by affirmation, ritual by ritual—
you’re rewriting the story you tell yourself.
And that story becomes your healing.
Eat Plants. Feel Alive.
Xo Kristel