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Love Your Naked Body Page 2
If your husband is willing to work with you on this issue, you can do this as a team. If not, do it on your own. I don't know if you are willing to make love with lights on but if not, light some candles next time. Get used to him seeing little bits at a time. Then, feel the fear, but walk across the room to the bathroom. After you've done this enough times to become a little more comfortable, (over several weeks) come back into the room and sit on him so he can see your breasts. Ask him if he thinks you're beautiful. Then lean down and kiss him. Then thank him for saying that and tell him how beautiful he makes you feel. Slowly, look for more opportunities to be naked. Yes, you'll feel uncomfortable, but you'll find that it will dissipate as you "push the envelope." Keep in mind that the goal is to make your marriage more loving and passionate, which is the greatest glue for a long-term marriage. You already know this because it's what inspired you to write. Having come from the same place, trust me when I say, it's going to feel REALLLLY good to be comfortable with your body. I wish you great success,
You are beautiful because you are a woman,
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The next phase would be to walk out to the water. Mostly, people would only see their backs. They would all go in the water and feel how free it is to swim naked. After that, they would all walk back to their towels. There would be a definite shift in how much less shy everyone would feel. Back on our blankets, we would enjoy our picnic lunch. Talking and laughing, eating and resting, the nudity would become almost unnoticed. The grand final exam would be to take a walk on the beach. The reason I know this works is because it's exactly how I got over my body shyness. I was so shy that when I was a girl, as badly as I wanted to go to Girl Scout Camp, I didn't because I'd heard we had to take a physical and the doctor took our tops off. I had a totally flat chest, but that didn't matter. I've regretted that decision many times. Maybe someday I'll do that workshop. I've enjoyed nude beaches in Maui where I lived for a while and in Santa Barbara. Usually there are mostly gay men who could care less about the women and many families with children. In Maui I used to take my grown daughter and one-year-old grandson to a great nude beach that was filled with lots of families playing in the sand and sea.
