With years of practice, it has become natural to think that my body is good, that all bodies are good. But it requires something different to say that now—it carries a different weight for a person to say it when there is pain. Or illness. Or injury. Or disability. I was becoming aware of how much others might have to negotiate to know and believe that their bodies are good, especially when prevailing cultural values are against them. Still on the floor, condensation from
