Inspired by Sandy C. Newbigging and Eckhart Tolle

Body Bashing is having recurrent negative, critical or abusive thoughts or feelings about your own physical appearance and sexual attractiveness. 
 
If you sometimes or often think:
  “I hate my thighs/boobs/belly/bum” 
 “I’m fat and ugly”
 “I’m too disgusting to be seen naked”
 That is body bashing! 

Regular body bashing harms your enjoyment of your natural sensual sexuality as a woman and your ability to have intimate connection.  Body bashing thoughts also harm your physical health by causing levels of health-giving nitric oxide to plummet and stress hormones to rise, adversely affecting blood sugar and insulin, leading to fatigue and weight gain, and increasing the risk of degenerative diseases, and breaking down immunity!
 
Just think how good it would feel if instead you were thinking:
 “My body is sooooo beautiful”
 “My thighs/boobs/belly/bum is/are gorgeous”
 “I’m so fantastically womanly”
 
Body loving thoughts not only feel good they have positive effects on your physical health by releasing nitric oxide which improves circulation getting more life-giving oxygen to every cell in your body faster and heightening sexual experiences through increased blood flow to breasts and genitals.  Plus levels of feel-good chemicals, such as serotonin and beta-endorphin, increase.
 
Top Six Tips to Beat Body Bashing
 
Tip #1: Positive Affirmations
Each time you catch yourself body bashing flip the script and say something positive and body affirming instead. My belly’s disgusting and huge turns into my belly is curvylicious and beautiful.  It’s absolutely possible to create neural pathways that favour affirming thoughts!
 
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When you find yourself in the middle of an argument with your partner
and you seem to be getting nowhere,
see if you can both agree to work it through
with a change in communication style.

Instead of both of you heatedly trying to get heard,
talking over each other
feeling side-tracked by the direction and momentum of the argument,
try some "Uninterrupted Listening".

One of you will speak, one of you will listen silently
then the roles will swap.

When it is your turn to speak
say everything you want to say,
without worrying what order it comes out in,
taking the time you need to formulate and express your thoughts and feelings
allowing silences if you need them
until you feel you have "emptied out"
all that you need to say,
then let your partner know that you're done
and it's their turn to speak.

Now it's your turn to listen without interrupting
looking at your partner,
to show that you are actively listening.
No need to interrupt them as it will be your turn again,
when they are done and have handed "the floor" back to you.

You can both take as many turns
as the situation needs,
only swapping roles when the person speaking
has fully finished and is ready to listen again.
                                                                                                                                                                 Inspired by Relate

Use the healthy emotion of anger in your heart
to create a healthy boundary around your body
and around your space* 
                          *the proprioceptive area around your body 
                            within which your animal senses
                            can feel what is going on 
                            to about an arm's length in all directions around you.
Claiming your space on this Earth,
Giving you a sense of clear spaciousness
in which you have room to "be".

                                                                  Inspired by Karla McLaren "The Language of Emotions"