By TARYN BRUMFITT
You’ve got wrinkles? Suck it up.
Cellulite? Suck it up.
Your nose is bigger than you’d like it to be? Suck it up.
Is your left boob bigger than your right? Suck it up.
Does your junk in your trunk wobble more than you’d like it to? Suck it up.
That’s right, folks, we’ve gotten away with behaving like self-indulgent spoilt brats for too long and I’m calling it – enough is enough.
I invite you to come on a journey with me. We are going to hover above the earth and I’m going to show you why it’s time to pull our heads in and start to live our lives with some perspective and gratitude.
Hovering is a technique I use to teach women to learn to love their bodies. Hovering is when you take some quiet time to reflect on how others live in the world. Pretend you are hovering above the earth and looking down at different countries and different cultures, in particular, look at how other women are living their lives.
This is what I see when I hover…
I see a mother in Ethiopia holding her dead child; her child just took its last breath because the family had no food or water.
I see the eyes of a nine-year-old girl on her wedding day, with tears streaming down her face. She has heard the stories of what will happen on her wedding night; she is terrified and helpless and can do nothing but take the hand of her 40 year-old husband-to-be and do exactly what he tells her to do.
I see the face of the child who has inhaled the fumes of a chemical attack and is lying on the floor suffocating, resembling a fish washed up on shore, trying to breathe.