Unfollow accounts on social media that make you feel bad about your body. This includes "fitspo" accounts that show only one body type. Follow accounts featuring plus-size yogis, adaptive athletes, disabled climbers, and average-bodied runners.

We are conditioned to have "fat talk" (e.g., "I feel so fat today"). Ban this phrase from your vocabulary. Replace it with specific, neutral statements: "I feel bloated today," or "My legs feel heavy." Specificity removes moral judgment.

Wear clothes that fit the body you have right now, not the body you are waiting for. Tight leggings that dig into your waist or jeans you have to lie down to button trigger a stress response (cortisol). Comfortable, flattering clothing allows you to move freely and breathe deeply—two pillars of wellness.

You cannot scroll for 20 minutes and feel good about yourself if you are looking at "fitspo" that has been photoshopped and lit for perfection.

In a society that glorifies "hustle culture," rest is seen as laziness. In a body-positive wellness lifestyle, rest is mandatory.

Before we can merge body positivity with wellness, we must address the elephant in the gym: diet culture. Diet culture is a belief system that equates thinness with health and moral virtue. It tells us that you cannot be "healthy" unless you are actively trying to lose weight or change your shape.

This is where most wellness journeys go wrong. When you start a fitness routine from a place of self-hatred—"I hate my thighs, so I will run them off"—you are not practicing wellness. You are practicing self-punishment dressed up as health.