"and i said to my body. softly. ‘i want to be your friend.’ it took a long breath. and replied ‘i have been waiting my whole life for this." - Nayyirah Waheed I spent most of my life struggling with body image. I spent my school years wishing I looked different. By age 15 I had developed an eating disorder, because I believed to be beautiful I had to be skinny, just like the models I had seen in magazines. I was devastated when I lost my leg to cancer at age 26. I spent so many years not able to look at myself in the mirror, because I thought I was ugly because I looked different. Thanks to running I finally accept who I am. I can finally look in the mirror and say "hell yes" and be proud of my body. This body runs freaking ultramarathons and really hard trail races💪. My biggest wish for my children is not to spend their lives worrying about what they look like or what people think and just to be who they are. It's ok to look and be different. Life becomes a much happier place whe...