This Is My Body. This Is My Home.

For a long time, I held negative thoughts about my body. I sometimes felt weird existing within my own skin.

And even now, despite being in a much healthier place and mostly at home within this body, it's hard for me to admit that. It's hard for me to tell you that I've not always felt at home in my skin.  I've been trying to write these words for many weeks. But I've stopped many times because I felt embarrassment and fear and uncertainty about whether I really wanted to talk about my relationship with my body.