Name: You don’t have to love your body [CC]
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T19:05:21.000Z
Duration: 14 min 55 s
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To-infinitive

I use my channel to make videos about heavy things

Mainly disability, deafness, and chronic illness related,

Today we're diving back into a sticky topic, bodies.

We all have them, we all have feelings about them.

We all have feelings about other people's bodies,

Or we're just really rude and enjoy casting judgment

Supposedly we're meant to do the most thinking

about our bodies during our teenage years,

but really I think we're always in constant

ebb and flow of positives and negatives about our bodies.

Often that relates to growing up or aging,

but the relationship can become particularly strained

when illness or disability is included in the mix.

We've probably all heard the term body positivity

and likely a very vague idea of what that means.

Being positive about bodies that are often marginalized

because it's actually a political movement

who face a lot of negativity about their bodies.

But it's be co-opted to be the peak of Instagram blandness

What? It's true, I mean, who doesn't love a good

but please do not act like you are curing the world hunger

That's not body positivity, the political movement.

What I will say however is that it's lovely

that there's a greater encouragement to think

It's important to care for it, but here's a secret.

From a photo you would probably look at my body

and think, "Well, that looks like a perfectly average

It's also really broken and messed up on the inside

as part of Teenage Cancer Trust's #StillMe campaign.

The idea of #StillMe is to acknowledge that

or not if that's how you're feeling today.

- Today I am joined by Meg and we're gonna be talking about

how you don't actually have to love your body,

but also you can love your body even when other people

to think about your own body because it's your body.

So you and I both have had kind of interesting -

- Yeah, do wanna tell us a bit about yours?

- I was 21, so this was two and half years ago

So I went through chemotherapy and lost my hair

and that obviously had a really big impact on

but I still, you know, you still deal with these things.

Your relationship with your body's completely changed

so yeah, that's why I'm here to talk about it.

- And already it being young is quite a difficult time

- to get ill in itself because when we're teenagers

we're still developing our own relationships

And I imagine when you were 21 you didn't have

- who you were and what you look like and

you were totally okay with every single part of you.

- No, definitely not but I think I also had

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