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Summer is often framed as a season where you’re expected to fully arrive in your best physical form. The idea of a “summer body” is far from a neutral perspective, and the months leading up to warmer weather reward discipline, shrinkage, and control. Like most beauty standards, it clearly reveals who is meant to be desired. 

Well, we’re taking a firm stance against it all and honor an inclusive approach to the idea of summer bodies. With that, we offer softer, more grounded ways to move through the season with selected affirmations:

• I welcome summer without asking my body or anyone else’s body to become smaller first. 
  
  

• I do not need a “perfect body” to enjoy summer.
  
  

• My body and other bodies are allowed to exist without becoming a project.
   

• My body belongs to me, not to anyone else.
  
  

• I can celebrate all bodies, including my own.
  
  

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