LOVING EVERY INCH OF YOU!

I have a secret...

I haven't revealed it until now because I believed, for many years, that there was something wrong with the way I felt.

My secret?
I LOVE MY BREASTS!

I know. I know it's not what you were expecting and it certainly wasn't what I was planning to write while I drank my Chai this morning and contemplated my next post...
but it's the TRUTH!

After years of being bombarded by external messages about what breasts were supposed to look and feel like, I never wavered from my love affair with my own glorious pair!

Sure there were the awkward years when they suddenly appeared out of nowhere and I didn't quite know what to make of them. There was the time during my early twenties when a friend's mother asked if I had ever considered breast reduction surgery! "No thank you, but you're welcome to lop off a part of your body if you would like!" When I was younger there was the ever present issue of how to get men to look me in the eye, or at least the general facial area, when they spoke to me.

So here I am now, a mature woman, whose breasts started the "Journey South" after nursing a son and daughter and have continued their descent. They are not the sculpted, lifted ideal that many pay dearly for. They are certainly nothing like what I see on television, but I'm quite fond of them!

My breasts are part of what makes me unique. They have provided comfort and nourishment to my children. I marvel at their buoyancy when swimming in the ocean. I suspect that they gave me a distinct "edge" when I was a teenager during the treading water part of my Jr. Lifesaving test! Lovers and my husband have always seemed to enjoy them and have given them plenty of adoration. I was never really alone during my solo years. I always had a couple of soft pillows to cuddle up with!

As I declare my love for my breasts, I am now wondering if I could possibly fall in love with other parts of my body? Perhaps the media's opinion of the cellulite on my thighs blinds me to the satiny soft skin and the strength of my thigh muscles? My ample belly is a far cry from the images of flat, toned abs that I see in every fashion magazine, but it was a temporary home to two beautiful souls and it is the center, the "fruit basket" of my feminine power.

Goddess says, "You were blessed to be born into a perfect, divine body in this lifetime. Allow yourself to fall back in love with EVERY INCH OF YOU!