The National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: Graciousness

 

This week, February 21^st through the 27^th, 2022 is the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. It’s a week that focuses on information about image and the factors that drive disordered eating and appearance issues.

With that being said, let’s also briefly examine the wonderful attributes that make us up, attributes that extend beyond physical appearance. We are more than what we easily see.

We are/have…

…Graciousness

Many of us have such poor self-image, we believe we are ugly, clumsy, stupid, lacking any kind of poise or style. We have difficulty believing we are, in any way, graceful or gracious. Yet that is what is inherent in us. How much more so, as so many of us are sensitive and empathic?

We possess a graciousness to life. Many of us have painful, horrific backstories that have made us champions, gentle, encouraging cheerleaders and advocates. Gracious. There’s more than meets the eye to that word. There’s more than meets the eye to you!