Sara Bareilles Instagram – First of a few posts… I have been thinking a lot about aging. Spoiler alert: I’m getting older. And I got majorly activated by a recent work event and it got me thinking about how fragile any mental progress I make feels sometimes – it is a sandcastle of confidence and one wave can really knock me out and I spiral in all the ways. Let me be clear- I WANT to love the body I’m in. I WANT to allow my face to just be whatever the fuck shape and texture it is. I’m TRYING to. But I don’t actually feel all that much love for it a lot of the time and that feels heavy and shameful and embarrassing. I thought I was smarter than that. I see and feel that there is some deep belief in me that if I don’t look a certain way I don’t deserve to be seen. How predatory- the urge to disappear because you believe you don’t deserve to be looked at. Today my small act of resistance is I’m cradling myself and every other person who struggles- to just bless the parts of ourselves that get exiled and told not to come in. I have zero things figured out. Zero answers. Just more questions – and more chances to do it differently. Begin again. Try it gentler this time. And let your body be. 💎🌱❤️