What Body Image Means to Carrie of The Sweetest

After having my son, I discovered a darkness I didn’t know existed, and it took me a year to even being to make sense of it.  To start to see things for what they are and to try to live in the moment, which is something I have worked very hard at.  I have also worked hard to get my body back to “normal”.  But three years later, my body still doesn’t look like it did before.  Things are curlier, straighter, smaller, bigger, smooshier, flatter.   I spent many months hating what I saw when I looked in the mirror.  Hating my new “normal.”

Eventually, there came a day of acceptance, and occasionally, I even have days of approval.  “Like, hey, this ain’t so bad for someone my age!”  Motherhood changed me, both inside and out.  And I have learned to feel beautiful in ways beyond what I see in the mirror.  The way the California sun makes my skin feel, how the light brings out the colors in my hair, or how my son and I look at each other in a photograph- in a way that tells me he thinks I am beautiful.   This picture was taken on one of those days.  Taken by my husband, who captured the beauty of that moment.

Carrie Meadows can be found blogging at The Sweetest, on Facebook and on Twitter.  She also has a shop on Etsy, selling things she hopes others will find beautiful.

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