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Nikita Gill wrote a piece in November 2015 for Thought Catalog about being gentle with your body. The last paragraph is just lovely.  The entire piece can be found here and you can find just the last paragraph here.

The last paragraph starts this way:

“Please be gentle with your body. It loves you more than anyone or anything in this world…”

And it goes on from there. I’d quote more if it didn’t violate copyright laws. So, seriously, click to read the entire piece or just the last paragraph.

The entire piece is one that supports self-compassion and self-awareness but the final paragraph is a beautiful admonition. For those of us who tend to take our bodies just a tiny bit for granted, it’s a timely reminder to love on ourselves just a little.

Speaking of poetry…have you heard of poetry, therapeutic expressive writing, or bibliopoetry therapy? Poetry therapy is an expressive arts therapy that can be used with therapeutic and non-therapeutic populations.  The National Association for Poetry Therapy website provides information about poetry therapy and its uses (and they are running their annual membership drive right now). Poetry is a wonderfully effective way to reach people in a non-confrontational, non-aggressive way and can result in profound insight. It’s pretty amazing, actually.

 

References

Gill, N. (2015, November 20). So please, be gentle with your body. Retrieved from https://thoughtcatalog.com/nikita-gill/2015/11/so-please-be-gentle-with-your-body/