Body Neutrality Series

What is Body Neutrality?

First, what is body neutrality? Instead of focusing on hating or loving your body, body neutrality focuses on accepting our bodies and respecting them despite our feelings towards them. Christine Byrne puts it well: “The body positive approach says you are beautiful no matter what your body looks like. The body neutral approach says, it doesn't matter if you think your body is beautiful or not, because what you look like is irrelevant to your value.” While I still believe it is true that we are each beautiful in out own unique way, feelings of love and positivity towards our bodies will come and go; however, since body neutrality is not feelings based, and more respect based, it sticks with you even on your bad body image days. Overall, this series is about representation and celebration of all body types, especially the ones that are not normally represented, and more importantly a reminder that we are all worthy of respect. It’s a reminder that you are more than just a body.