Moving in to My Self — How Yoga Changed My Life

Mariam El Boudi
4 min readNov 11, 2020

A journey of self-love and becoming my own best friend.

Photo by Becca Tapert on Unsplash

Year after year, I set myself up to the same old challenge: shedding my extra pounds. At the early age of five, I was already fully aware of the social pressure on women’s physique. By the time I was 19, I had tried — and failed — a string of dieting techniques. These fruitless attempts only lead to body dysmorphia, an…

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Mariam El Boudi

A buddhist, a photographer, a friend. Embracing life on the daily.