how to love the body

[thebrokenarrows]

go swimming in the ocean, the sacred, holy ocean
get a tan from the binder you were wearing so that all your freckles come out and stand against the browned skin
but in between there is a stripe of white from your binder and you feel valid, even naked, even a month later
cover yourself with that body glitter stuff lush makes so that it looks like your skin itself actually shimmers, not just glitter ON your skin
become covered in bruises from an exhausting, punishing but good job working with animals
cover the freckles and the tan lines and the bruises with what looks like stardust embedded in your skin

feel good about yourself even outside