Summertime, it can be a really challenging time for many of us that have issues with our bodies. We've just gotten through a winter where we can cover up, nobody sees how we look. You know what puffy coats we've got big jumpers were really protected. And then summit comes and you have to start removing the layers and you start feeling more self conscious because you're feeling exposed and all of those things start happening. If you want to learn how to change that, you have to start with seeing your body differently. So my legs I talk about my legs a lot because they have been an area that I have not exposed.

There were there were some areas where my legs with that lily white, and there were almost ghostly because they never saw sunlight and never saw any form. daylight are always under legging. So always under stocking. So always under a long skirt always covered. Now, when you were want to work towards body acceptance, you have to see those parts that you've struggled with in a different way. Now I spent the better part of my life, calling my carbs, my chunky weightlifter legs.

Now that I am in a place of the body acceptance, I am so grateful that my legs are massively and strong. I have massively strong legs. My eldest daughter has a very similar body to me. She's never going to be that ln legged, you know, people his legs are like that, but I wished I had when I was at school, she's not going to be like that she's gonna be like me. So when I talk about my legs, I talk about how awesome they are. When when we talk about her legs, and when she's sleeping and cartwheeling and doing all of those crazy things, I say, look how incredible athletes are.

Our legs are amazing. Find your body parts, you know if it's your arms if you you know, my mom for a very long time recently, up until I started this journey, and she started listening to the things I was saying, my mom wouldn't show her arms. She always had some sort of accardi on some sort of a cover up if she never showed her arms. Well, guess what? She now shows her arms. And what she says is, these arms would give the best hugs.

They had they tickle they can carry. Your arms are amazing. And so she's going to show her arms to the world because her arms are amazing. Same with my legs, my legs take me everywhere I need to go and I am not covering them up for anybody. Unless, of course I need to shave them and then I might cover them up while I'm waiting for the razor. But you get my point, you have to see your body differently.

Now babies can be an incredibly challenging time, because that's not just about showing your legs. It's about showing your entire body. Well, every time I go to the beach, and I look around, I see so many different bodies. And the thing that always sticks out to me is that most of those bodies are not perfect. Everyone has cellulite somewhere. Everyone has something and I look around and I think, wow, these women are amazing.

While I'm sitting there covered up, you know, too ashamed to walk to the water. Well, not anymore. Because my body is my you know, it's the body that I've been gifted and so getting your body summer ready is really as simple as that. Getting some divers on. Now if you haven't been in Vegas for a long time, and I know that there are many people that couldn't relate to this, it can be incredibly anxiety filled, that that moment where you go to actually be in Vegas at the beach or at the pool or wherever you are. One of the things that you can do to start getting more comfortable, as strange as this sounds, way your baby is around your house.

So let it all hang out where you buy this, cook the dinner, you know, whatever it is, just show your kids how comfortable you are. Now there is studies that talk about mothers who feel ashamed to be invaders. their daughters grow up, and when they don't describe to have a similar body. They also have that same shame. My mom never wore Baylor's. She was always you know, towel was at the edge of the pool, ready to wreck the rancher as soon as she got out.

I always work Long t shirt for, you know, from about 11 or maybe 10. As soon as I started developing, I was covering my body. And there were very few times in my life where I was confident in by there's a handful of years where I was, you know, thin and probably quite unwell with an eating disorder as well, but very few times in my life. So to get comfortable, you need to fake it until you make it you know, put those divers on flaunt around the house, you do a bit of a dance party with the kids get them to put their diapers on to and that way when you go to the to the pool, or to the beach or wherever it is, you've already got a little bit of that confidence happening and fake it until you make it and you know the biggest secret is that nobody's really looking at you.

And if they are looking at you, probably thinking that you look pretty cool. And anyone that isn't looking at you For those reasons, he cares anyway, like, really, I admire women that have bodies that are at the beach, living their best life with their kids, because our kids don't remember how our thighs jiggled or how, you know, our body parts rub together. They remember how cool it was those summers at the beach where mom used to play in the water with them. Those things. Once those either passed, he can't get them back. So put on your bathers, go to the beach.

Run around the house in a bikini. Do what works for you. Do it. Don't miss out on another summer.