Your body doesn’t determine your worth.

Full stop.

No really, I mean it. I know that as women especially, it’s like from birth we’re groomed to determine our worth from our desirability for men. Even in today’s society where that fabric seems like it’s been torn away, threads remain linking it all together. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. We can decide to rebel against that and find our worthiness from within. From WHO we are, not what we look like.

If you have a medical device, a feeding tube, if you’re a wheelchair user, if you’re malnourished, if you’re overweight, if you have stretch marks or rolls (we all have those), if you’re a BIPOC, if you’re gay, trans, non-binary, or anything in between, YOU ARE STILL WORTHY.

You’re just as worthy of desire, inclusion, love, and compensation as your peers are. You’re just as worthy of being treated with the utmost care and respect in the medical system as white straight men usually are. You’re just as worthy of finding clothes you love that fit you as thin white women are.

I know I’m privileged in a lot of ways and I would never pretend to understand the experiences of people whose treatment has been different from mine, but I do know and validate that it exists. Most importantly, I know that it shouldn’t. There’s proven racial, gender, and weight bias in medicine and just about everywhere else. In order to break down and rebuild it, we have to work together.

So if you’re feeling insecure, I want to remind you that I’m here to love you for all that you are. I love WHO you are, and what you look like only makes you even more beautiful.

♡ you. are. worthy. ♡