I wrote a little while ago about how running changed the way I look at my body—how focusing on what my body does and can do has given me more confidence… Many people, including myself, like to take the month of November to reflect upon everything I have to be grateful for. I wanted to start off this month of gratitude for thanking my body for everything it does. 
Thank you body, for your strength. Thank you for carrying me through marathons and for allowing me to try some crazy yoga arm balances. Thank you for allowing me to do the activities that I love and enjoy, through which I can experience amazing things such as the beauty of nature on a run or hike.
Thank you for your flexibility. Thank you for being flexible not only as I practice yoga, but also as I go throughout my daily life. Thank you for being flexible enough to keep up with changes in my routine, like when I have to wake up very early.
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Thank you body for being well and healthy. Thank you for being strong enough to allow me to take care of the people I love when they need me. Thank you for allowing me the things I need to do to make a living and to take care of my home.
To show my gratitude, I promise to take care of you. I promise to listen when you try to tell me to slow down or rest so that you can stay healthy. I promise to give you good fuel and to use that fuel to continue to allow you to do amazing things. I promise to show you my love every day by giving you everything that you need.
What do you thank your body for?
How do you show gratitude for your body?
What’s your favorite way to take care of yourself?
This is beautiful. I feel like I’ve spent so much time fighting my body and only in the past year or so have really started to appreciate and respect and be grateful for it and all the things it can do for me. More than anything I guess I’m grateful to my body for putting up with all the craziness I put it through – years of restrictive eating and not sleeping properly and pushing it too hard. I try to treat my body as well as possible now to make up for all of that!
I’m so so grateful to my body for not giving up on me this year even when I wasn’t too kind to it. My body and I share a never give up attitude!
Love it! Sounds like you’re on the same page–the best place to be with your body!
Great post. s I get older I am learning to be more grateful for what my body is and what it can do.
Thanks! I’ve found the same thing as I get older. Maybe as we mature we begin to realize what’s really important? 🙂
You know how much I love this. I have learned over the years, and especially through running just how much this little body of mine goes through and how much it gives me. I put it through so much, and it is still hanging in there. Some days better than others, but it’s still there!
Thank you! So glad that your body has been good to you and you’re good to it!
Great post Beth. So thoughtful and nice. I am thankful for how healthy my body is and how it is often much stronger than I give it credit for.
Yesss!!! I love this!!!
Beth, I love this post! It’s so beautifully written!
Aw, thank you so much, Tami! <3