Friends,
Sharing this post with you that I shared on my social media this week. With it being valentines day weekend I figured a post about self love seemed important!
Dear The Plastic Surgery Group,
Today as I was driving to work your billboard caught my eye. So much so it dripped into my work day, conversations I had with clients and even my husband.
One thing quickly- I am not anti plastic surgery, I’d probably even get some Botox one day. This isn’t a plastic surgery is wrong post.
But in my work with women, I keep discovering this major conversation of our worthiness. And when I saw this billboard that down right exploits not only women, mothers who literally give a piece of themselves during the birth process but also our young daughters.
At this age of the girl in your billboard you are already exploiting how she is not good enough. Her body is not good enough. She will carry that voice through out the rest of her life – if I become a mother my body won’t be good enough. If I become a mother I’ll have to have procedures to make me beautiful again.
This is an ache we NO longer have to carry. This is a truth we can speak out against.
We are beautiful.
We are worthy.
Our bodies are perfect.
We are enough.
We are perfect.
Our bodies are meant to get stretched and pulled and experienced.
We are sold every day- take this vitamin to grow better hair, this razor will make you smooth, wear this makeup, take this oil, only eat before 3pm, diet here.
I’ve seen women selling this “get prettier more better” systems for years. Not one of them tells you you are enough. Every single system tells you that you are flawed.
I am here to remind you- you are not flawed. You are perfect, stretch marks, loose skin, over weight, under weight, long hair, short hair- you are perfect.
Adding this horrible horrible billboard literally in the faces of thousands of women who are also in the midst of a pandemic where literally they are BREAKING trying to balance how to grow their careers, take care of the kids, the home, the relationships, themselves. Where women right now are literally crumbling under the pressure of performance, arms aching from holding it all, depression and anxiety through the roof this is what you choose to put in our faces. This. This is just awful.
Disgusted is a word I don’t use often and yet it is a word fit for this billboard. And we know now more than ever we can spread like wildfire. Women have been waking up fast and furious – we know our dollars count and that is exactly where we can make a difference. We don’t have to buy into this any longer.
I am not here to fight horrid vicious billboard campaigns but I am here to share & remind us that this is not ok. To remind us- you are worthy just as you are, and so are our children.
If you feel called to share, please do!
In Gratitude & Unconditional Self Love,
Rachel
