How to overcome body dysmorphia
Shift Your Focus, Reclaim Your Power
Let’s be real—body dysmorphia is a lie. A conditioned, deeply ingrained, socially reinforced lie that tells you your worth is tied to how you look. And if you step back for a second, you’ll realize how ridiculous that actually is.
Are you walking around analyzing and judging every person you see? Probably not. So why waste your energy assuming that everyone is doing it to you?
Here’s the truth: Your body is the least interesting thing about you.
Your Body is Not the Point
What actually matters? Your performance. Your health. Your ability to live fully.
Life isn’t about obsessing over aesthetics. It’s about connection, experiences, pushing your limits, and showing up at your full capacity. And that requires a shift—from short-term gratification to long-term evolution.
Because at the end of the day, no one remembers you for how your body looks. And if that’s what you’re prioritizing—if your own value system is based on appearance—you’re focusing on the wrong thing.
How to ‘Get Over’ Body Dysmorphia:
1. Acknowledge That It’s Completely Irrational
The existence of body dysmorphia itself is insane. It goes against human nature. Our purpose is to survive, evolve, and experience. Yet here we are, letting societal conditioning make us feel small, unworthy, and broken over something that doesn’t define us.
2. Recognize the Real Problem
The problem isn’t your body. It’s the way society has trained you to obsess, compare, and doubt yourself. Every ad, every filtered image, every unrealistic standard—it’s all designed to make you feel like you need to be “fixed.”
So stop letting a broken system dictate your self-worth. That’s the real issue—not your body.
3. Shift Your Focus to What Actually Matters
• Train because you love feeling strong, not because you hate how you look.
• Eat to fuel your body, not to punish it.
• Move because it makes you feel alive, capable, and powerful.
• Show up in your life for the experiences, the relationships, the things that actually make life meaningful.
4. Choose Growth Over Obsession
When you’re stuck in body dysmorphia, you’re living in a loop of self-obsession. But when you focus on getting stronger, healthier, and more present—
you break free.
