Psychotherapist Rita Maria Hawila

Your body changed because it created life. 🤍

And while society keeps showing ‘perfect’ postpartum bodies and pushing the pressure of having a ‘summer body,’ many mothers are silently learning to recognize themselves again.

As the season gets closer, the comparisons get louder:
- ‘Bounce back.’
- ‘Get your body back.’
- ‘Lose the baby weight.’

But your body was never meant to prove its worth through appearance.
Stretch marks, softness, weight changes, scars, exhaustion… these are not failures. They are signs of everything your body carried, survived, and gave.

You are allowed to miss your old body sometimes.
And you are also allowed to appreciate the body that brought your baby into this world.

Motherhood changes the body, but your worth was never defined by a shape.💞

Sunday thoughts 💙

An experiment that has been confirmed repeatedly, you can try this, too.

Set up an Instagram or TikTok account as a 13yo girl. When asked about your interests, or in your Explore page, click on things like puppies, kittens, and nature.

Within a week, the depressive, self-harm, and eating disorder content starts being fed to you.

This highlights the type of content many children are exposed to online, which may play a significant role in the growing prevalence of eating disorders.

تجربة تم تأكيد نتائجها بشكل متكرر، يمكنك تجربة ذلك أيضًا.

قم بإنشاء حساب على إنستغرام أو تيك توك كفتاة تبلغ من العمر ١٣ عامًا. عند سؤالك عن اهتماماتك، أو من خلال صفحة الاستكشاف، اضغط على محتوى مثل الجراء والقطط والطبيعة.

خلال أسبوع واحد، يبدأ ظهور محتوى متعلق بالاكتئاب وإيذاء النفس واضطرابات الأكل بشكل متكرر لك.

يسلط هذا الضوء على نوع المحتوى الذي يتعرض له العديد من الأطفال عبر الإنترنت، والذي قد يساهم بشكل كبير في تزايد انتشار اضطرابات الأكل.