I’ve been really dealing with body image lately and trying to accept and embrace the body I was given. I was abused growing up, and it caused me to dissociate my mind and body, but after cutting 10 inches of hair off in a transformative move, my body and mind are together again. This however has also meant disliking how busty I am, how short I am, how my hair is just straight and bland, and how curvy I am in general. But after seeing this website, I was crying. My curvy and busty nature was inherited to me from my mother, whom I never got to see that often once my parents divorced, and it will always connect me to her. My height I got from my grandmother, who was one of the strongest women I’ve ever heard about. My hair and eyes would have been beautiful to any German or Danish ancestor of mine. My body allows me to feel grass and smell the crisp air, it allows me to travel and meet new people. And maybe I’m not as physically fit as I would like, and maybe I have asthma, but my body is doing all it can for me, its time for me to show it love too.