I know it’s not cool to talk about COVID anymore but boy-o-boy did it put a spell on me. Or should I say it put some size on me? Now I want to be honest, I have never been (a standard size/ skinny/ whatever society says / describes as thin and beautiful) I’ve gone from a ……. (list your size range) to a (list your size range) but these extra pounds made me realise something about the world. There is a huge gap in the treatment given by others. When I’m a size 0/6/8/10/12 the attention and kindness are present. The favours and compliments always come. Strangers see me. With my (20/30/40 extra pounds ) I instantly felt a difference in how people saw me. ____(I feel a different energy in my public interactions/ I am ignored in public places/ Strangers are not so welcoming/ I get a different kind of energy from folks) This has made me so ( feel sad, angry/ more aware of the double standards.) We scale our love for people. People are judged harshly based on their size. Each of us has inner work toward how we judge our own bodies and how we take that judgment out into the world. We can work on loving ourselves but we must work on loving each other too. Have you experienced this? ❤️