Your body is more than just the vessel you use to wake up and do things everyday: It hosts your mind, which jumpstarts your body into motion and allows you to think, articulate, and create. It holds your heart, which helps you to circulate blood throughout your body, and gives you the oxygen you need to breathe and move. It even supports your stomach, which not only stores your favorite meals, but digests them and sends nutrients to the rest of your organs needed to live.

Your body is more than what you see on the outside. It is a beautiful, natural machine that gives you a new opportunity each day to live a life of your desire. Learn to appreciate it for what does for you. Give it the proper nourishment to sustain the day’s journey. Acknowledge it for what it allows you to experience, not for what it looks like or how it compares to another.

Your purpose in life is not to be just like everyone else, but to be who you are and who you wish to be. Honor yourself and your vessel, and give your body the love you know it deserves.