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An open letter to my body...

Writer's picture: Elif KilincElif Kilinc

I write this letter having just completed a year long course focused on anatomy and physiology.


I have gained so much from the course, more than I expected. But without doubt the biggest thing I have gained from closely studying the human body is the relationship and perspective shift I have had in relation to my own body.


There are so many feelings that I am experiencing right now that I would struggle to put in to words, but I wanted to write an open letter to my body to try to express some of those things as best I can...


Dear body,


I am so sorry I hated you for so long, I am so sorry I saw you as a burden, a prison for my freedom loving spirit whose walls I could not escape.


For so long you felt like a heavy weight, a weight I had to carry around with me 24/7, I felt like you made life difficult for me.


I felt like you were unattractive, that you were weak, you were incapable, you were not able to do the things I asked of you.


All I have ever wanted to do is change you, in to something different, in to something better.


But now I recognise your intelligence, your beauty, your strength, your immense power and potential.


I realise that you were and always will be working in my favour, for me and never against me. Everything you do is to keep me safe and protect me from harm.


Those protracted shoulders were protecting my heart from more pain. Those colds and flus were eliminating toxins. Those aches and pains were alerts to deeper issues that my mind had not yet processed.


I am sorry, so sorry for not recognising this sooner.


How wrong I I was for ever seeing you as an enemy, as my captivity.


You are no longer an enemy, you are my greatest asset and my greatest tool.


You are the physical vessel that allows my spirit to express itself.


Thank you for everything you have ever done for me, without me having to ask or instruct, I promise I will try to be kind to you as best I can for as long as you are mine.


I am ready to reclaim you and to begin to repair our relationship.


Yours always,


Elif x






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