Welcome To Mede Bodi
- Edem K. Garro
- Sep 2, 2016
- 2 min read
Welcome to our first blog! Here at Mede Bodi (pronounced Meh-d Boh-dee), we are firm believers in loving yourself, and teaching others how to do so as well. In this day and age, it is hard for most people in this society to look inside the mirror, and love what they see. As a child growing up within a society that didn't like African-Americans, let alone their hair, it was very hard for me to look in that mirror and tell me that I loved me.
That is until one day, I heard my little brother (who was 7 at the time) tell me, "I don't want to eat, because I don't want to get fat". Those words haunted me. I was 17 at this time, and I knew, there was something terribly wrong. Not with my mothers parenting, but the society she was trying to raise us against. It was hard. Growing up with a culture and society that finds new diet crazes every week, goes to length of surgically removing, or enhancing every aesthetic on the human body, I got fed up! When will people learn to love who they are, love the body they were born in, love the hair they were born with, and when will they teach others to do the same, instead of tearing them down?
It was then I finally decided. I couldn't wait to see the change, I had to act myself. But first, I needed to love myself, I needed to learn to understand me, and love me for just who I was... Me. I know I am not perfect, and I do not expect you the reader to be as well, but I do expect yo to think highly of yourself, I do expect you to treat yourself well, and I do expect you to love yourself. So follow me on our Mede Bodi Journey, and one day, hopefully, you will see what took me so long to see. I love you guys, and remember, life can get tough, but trust me... You are stronger than you put on! Have a fantastic Friday everyone!
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