I always found the acknowledgment phase challenging because I didn’t want to say many of those thoughts out loud. I didn’t want to acknowledge that I was having a hard time. I wanted to have an easy time, I wanted to be strong and doing great and to love myself, no matter what. I wanted to believe I had achieved body positivity, job done, on to more fun things. But it’s so important to tell yourself on the days you can’t make it there, that it’s okay to not be okay. I repeat, it is okay to not be okay. There’s no shame in having a hard time—in the context of the world we live in, it’s almost
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