Love your tree

I've just been reading an article by Eve Ensler (author of The Vagina Monologues). She has written a new play The Good Body and as part of her research visited over 40 countries to interview women on their attitude to their bodies. A poignant comment made by Leah a Masai woman was this: 'In America, your bodies are just pictures to you, here we live in our bodies they do our work' Leah also had some sound advice for those moments of self hatred that we all experience. 'There are no ugly trees. You don't go around saying "That tree is prettier than that tree" You're a tree, I'm a tree, we're all trees; you've got to love your tree.' I'm going to try and remember that next time I'm hating my thighs because I think they look like tree trunks...