“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.” - Naomi Wolf

...“When I think back over the dieting years and the rare moments I managed to force my body into looking like the ideal, I don't wish for that body back. I wish for that time back.” - Megan Jayne Crabbe

International Women's Day:

This year I woke to international women's day to many conflicting news articles, the main topic of conversation was around the gender pay gap. This led me to reflect on something I had read many years back in Megan Jayne Crabbe's bestselling book, Body Positive Power.

I'd like to invite you to ponder the notion that if you had invested as much time and energy into perusing your career as you have your ideal body. Where would your career be now?

Lets not just limit this train of thought to career & pay gap - literally start thinking about the amount of time you have spent with your brain focused on calories, exercise, body image, beauty standards, diets... if you were free of those thoughts, what would you have preferred to be thinking about? And what would be different for you today?