Nudist Beach and Body Image

If you have the opportunity to go to a nudist beach, I highly encourage it and here’s why:

The unveiling, the baring it all for the public eye might sound wildly uncomfortable. I totally get it. You’re exposing the flesh you’ve been taught to hide, to cover, to contort with clothes.

We’ve acquired shitty beliefs about our bodies. We’re exposed to unrealistic standards of how we should look and bombarded with messages that imply our bodies are wrong. We live in a world that shames bodies for their size, their shape, their color, their abilities, their normalities. We’re told we should be this, should be that. Less of this, and more of that.

It’s no surprise as to why we’re suffocated by body shame and fall in the toxic trap of “shoulding” ourselves.

Well, when there’s a display of body diversity in front of your very eyes, the idea of needing to look a certain way naturally fades.

I wholeheartedly believe a nudist beach gifts you with the opportunity to begin leaving shame and should behind.

You see all different body types. You’ll notice how many people have cellulite, wrinkles, stretch marks, scars, body hair, unsymmetrical breasts, larger ariola’s, and belly rolls. The normality of your body starts to sink in.

And when you’re surrounded by people unapologetically revealing every part of their being, roaming around, swimming in the sea, carefree—you’ll suddenly feel inclined to strip down and do the same.⠀

Visiting a nudist beach is an invite to be free in your body and an experience to see the myriad ways bodies can exist. A reminder of how natural and normal are bodies really are—as they are.