150 Positive Affirmations for Body Image

Body image is something that is a work in progress for many of us. These positive affirmations for body image can help you work towards improved body confidence, body respect, and body love.

Affirmations are a tool used to rewire and retrain our unconscious thoughts and beliefs.

Many of us hold limiting beliefs about our bodies and physical appearances. If you struggle with love self-esteem, body image, body confidence, or even just body respect, these body image affirmations are for you.

Through repetition, these body image affirmations are incredibly powerful in working to retrain your subconscious mind to a place of body respect, appreciation, and love.

Body Neutrality vs. Body Confidence

These body image affirmations are split into a couple of different categories here: body neutrality and body confidence.

But… what’s the difference? What do those terms even mean? Let’s break it down.

What is Body Neutrality?

Body neutrality is exactly how it sounds. It is simply feeling neutral toward your body.

No overwhelmingly positive or negative emotions come up surrounding your body.

Body neutrality offers you the flexibility to have both more confident and less confident days without the feeling of “failure”.

This concept simply affirmations that you are valuable and worthy of respect without any emphasis on your body’s shape, size, color, etc.

Additionally, body neutrality can be helpful for those coming from a negative body image space. Sometimes the leap from “I hate my body” to “I LOVE my body” is too much.

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Expecting that shift to happen overnight can be overwhelming and may set you up for failure.

Body neutrality can be a great stepping stone.

When working on healing your relationship with your body and improving your body image, body neutrality can help.

What is Body Confidence?

Body confidence is a positive relationship with your body.

Whether it be for its appearance, its functionality, or just for its existence, body confidence implies a positive relationship between your mind and your physical body.

I also like to group the terms “body respect” and “positive body image” under this umbrella.

Having body confidence implies that you feel confident in your body.

I think it’s important to note that this feeling does not have to be concrete.

Body image fluctuations are normal and happen to everyone.

However, if you have an overall feeling of appreciation and confidence in your body, you may have pretty good “body confidence”.

So, What About Body Positivity?

Body positivity is very misunderstood.

At its root, the body positivity movement is for people that exist in marginalized bodies.

The term “body positivity” has been taken on by people in non-marginalized bodies and manipulated to seem synonymous with “self-love” or “positive body image”.

Positive body image is not the same as body positivity.

As someone in a privileged body, I do not use the term body positivity because I recognize that the movement was not created for me.

Because of that, you may notice that these positive affirmations for body image are not titled “body positivity affirmations” as I cannot speak on the body positive movement.

For more information on the roots of the body positivity movement, check out this article by Refinery29.

150 Positive Body Image Affirmations

Body image is more than you “love your body”. When working to improve your body image, you may have to begin from a place of body acceptance or body neutrality and then move forward into body respect and even body love.

This is a gradual process, but don’t fret!

There are body image affirmations here for every step of your journey.

75 Affirmations for Body Neutrality

Focusing on body acceptance and body neutrality, these body image affirmations can help you build a neutral ground with your body by breaking free from negative body image thoughts.

1. My body is simply a vessel for my soul.
2. My body deserves to be taken care of.
3. Life is too short to worry about my body’s appearance.
4. My body is my body.
5. My body does a lot of work for me.
6. I have everything I need inside of me.
7. My body does not affect my lovability.
8. My worth is not determined by a number.
9. I am worthy of love, regardless of my body.
10. My body is uniquely mine and that is enough.
11. My life can be full, regardless of my body size.
12. I am a whole person, not a body.
13. My body is the least interesting thing about me.
14. There is so much more to life than worrying about my weight.
15. My body is not my identity.
16. I am defined by who I am, not what I look like.
17. My existence matters, no matter what.
18. My body does not change my worth.
19. I eat to nourish my soul.
20. I can experience a full life in any body size.
21. My size, shape, and appearance does not impact my ability to enjoy life.
22. I am lovable no matter what I look like.
23. The people that matter will love me for me – not my body.
24. My body can change but my worth does not.
25. My energy draws people towards me.

26. Who I am as a person makes me special.
27. My soul is the most beautiful thing about me.
28. I will eat a variety of foods – for both wellness and enjoyment.
29. The most beautiful parts of me cannot be seen by the eye.
30. I can be joyful at any size.
31. I can be healthy at any size.
32. My identity is not in my body.
33. I am a human being with imperfections – but I am still loveable.
34. My core values have nothing to do with my body’s appearance.
35. I am worthy of love, joy, and happiness.
36. The “perfect” body does not exist.
37. I am enough.
38. My body is only one tiny part of who I am.
39. Not everyone has to like me.
40. I am okay at any size.
41. There is no morality in body size.
42. I am safe in my body.
43. My body works very hard for me.
44. There is more to life than losing weight.
45. There is more to life than what I look like.
46. I will not compare myself to others.
47. Thin does not equal health, happiness, or worthiness.
48. Nourishment is not earned – I am worthy unconditionally.
49. Just as I don’t love people for their bodies, people don’t love me for mine.
50. My self-respect does not change based on the number on a scale.
51. My loved ones love me for reasons that have nothing to do with how I look.
52. Numbers are irrelevant to me.
53. The photos I see online and in the media are not real.
54. I accept myself.
55. I will nourish myself – physically and mentally.
56. Beauty is subjective.
57. I am complete on my own.
58. Just as I am, I am worthy of respect.
59. I eat for energy to live my happiest life.
60. I will not simplify my beauty to the physicality of my body.
61. My body is mine to care for.
62. I am defined by who I am, not what I look like.
63. Food allows me to live my life with energy.
64. I look the way I am supposed to.
65. Accepting myself as I am is the first step toward liberation.
66. Mental wellness is important to me.
67. I am okay with who I am right now.
68. I offer so much value to this world that has nothing to do with my body.
69. My opinion of myself matters most.
70. I deserve to feel good.
71. It’s not about changing my body, it’s about becoming the best person I can be.
72. Societal beauty standards do not control me.
73. I will be kind to my body even when I feel uncomfortable with its appearance.
74. It is okay to not feel confident all the time.
75. Internal beauty matters more to me than external beauty.

75 Affirmations for Body Confidence

These body image affirmations are geared more towards fostering positive emotions towards your body. These positive body affirmations are all about appreciating, respecting, and loving your body.

76. My body is beautifully mine.
77. My body does so much for me.
78. I love my… (something you love! Eyes, hair, smile, etc.)
79. My legs are strong.
80. I respect my body enough to care for it.
81. I will nourish my body because I deserve it.
82. My arms allow me to hug my loved ones. I am grateful.
83. I am perfectly me.
84. Taking care of myself feels good.
85. I am comfortable in my own skin.
86. No one can make me feel poorly about myself without my permission.
87. I deserve to feel good in my body.
88. I find comfort in the trust I have in my body.
89. My body protects me.
90. Loving my body does not make me self-centered.
91. I am beautiful in all shapes and sizes.
92. I am confident.
93. My body is hardworking.
94. I appreciate my heart for beating.
95. Confidence flows effortlessly toward me.
96. I am grateful for my health.
97. I’m deeply accepting of my body.
98. Someone else sees how beautiful I am, even if I can’t right now.
99. I love to take care of my body.
100. My body guides me and I trust its intuition.
101. I acknowledge all my body does for me.
102. Thank you, body.
103. I celebrate my body for all it is and all it does.
104. My body is resilient, strong, and empowered.
105. I am admired by many.
106. Confidence is beautiful.
107. I will treat my body as the gift it is.
108. I know my worth.
109. My beauty is undeniable.
110. I am perfect at all sizes.
111. My appearance is to be celebrated.
112. I feel grateful when I look in the mirror.
113. Legs, thank you for carrying me.
114. Heart, thank you for beating so strong.
115. Lungs, thank you for giving me air.
116. I love my body.
117. I know I am beautiful as a person.
118. Others love me – and why wouldn’t they?!
119. I respect my body.
120. I am me. She is she. We are both beautiful.
121. My body is a gift.
122. I trust my body.
123. My body is sacred.
124. I am so grateful for my body.
125. Body, I will love you for who you are.

126. My body and I work together as one.
127. I am beautiful like me. No one else has that.
128. My body takes good care of me.
129. I deserve to be treated with love and respect.
130. I am sexy.
131. It’s okay for me to like myself.
132. I will take good care of my body.
133. Someone’s judgments about my body are a reflection of them – not me.
134. I give myself permission to feel confident.
135. My body can change and I will love it still.
136. I am lovable.
137. My body is wise.
138. I feel safe in my body.
139. Above all else, I will love myself first.
140. I can stand up for myself because I am confident in who I am.
141. I give myself permission to love myself in all shapes and sizes.
142. My body has many gifts.
143. I am okay with who I am at this exact moment.
144. I model the respect for myself that I command from others.
145. My body can do amazing things.
146. Confidence is in endless supply.
147. My self-love shows others how to love me.
148. I am glowing.
149. My body is a good body.
150. I love myself.

How Will You Use Body Affirmations?

Now that you have 150 beautiful positive body affirmations for body neutrality and body confidence, it’s time to put them to use.

How will you use these affirmations to love your body?

Will you adopt a daily affirmation practice into your morning routine? Revisit them throughout the day? Or maybe at night before bed?

Will you pair them with meditation or manifestation?

Will you journal on them? Or maybe use positive affirmation cards?

Your affirmation practice is highly individual and entirely up to you! That’s the beauty of it.

Take these positive body affirmations and utilize them in your own way. Incorporate them into your life in a way that feels most powerful to you.

Most of all, I am proud of you for pursuing body image growth, body confidence, and increasing your love for your body. This is a journey and you are taking an amazing step with these affirmations.

Keep going!

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