08/05/2026
“your body is the least impressive thing about you”
I came across this in a post recently from an able-bodied woman.
I couldn’t disagree more.
It’s easier to dismiss the body when you already exist in one that aligns with the standard.
When your body is accepted, validated, and moves through the world with ease.
For those who don’t experience full movement, full sensation, or ease and function within their body, the relationship to it carries a completely different weight.
And to minimise the body is to overlook just how meaningful,�complex, and powerful that experience really is.
The human body is incredible.
The way it grows, adapts, and moves.
The way it builds strength, not just physically, but from the inside out.
It carries sensations, emotions, memories, and experiences.
It processes so much more than we ever give it credit for.
When I think about my body, I think about everything it has done for me.
The strength built over time.
The way it has carried me through years of change, challenge, growth, and feeling.
To reduce the body to “the least impressive thing” feels so dismissive of everything it truly is and does.
Your body is not just part of you, it is the very thing that allows you to experience life at all.
And that is pretty incredible.