Maybe I am the only one, but I catch myself turning around in the mirror and moving my body around in ways to make myself feel more beautiful. I’ll put my hands on my waist and I’ll shrink my shoulders in. Sometimes I’ll stand straight and tall while trying on a new lipstick to distract others from the pieces of me that I am most ashamed of.

However, I don’t think I’m the only one struggling with body image because if I was I would feel alone in this battle of loving my body. Honestly, I don’t feel alone at all. My social media news feeds are completely swamped with some of the most beautiful posts and magnificent images to compel girls and boys to love their bodies.

Recently, a visual multimedia artist named Jody Steel posted a video called “Body Image.” Steel uses her body as a canvas creating insanely realistic drawings, and recently she used her stomach as a canvas to show how society can pressure us to take dramatic measures to having the ideal body. In this incredibly moving video, Steel starts with her normal stomach to then using black paint disguising the sides of her stomach with the backdrop and the middle of her stomach twisted like a wet towel.

In response to the 80 million views and all the kind words, Steel said on her Facebook:

“There have been times I've look in a mirror and wished for a perfect figure. No matter how much I went to the gym or how little I ate carbs and sugar, I still didn't see what I imagined was perfect. Once I realized that naturally, I don't have a coke bottle figure, or long and thin legs, I began to let go of the pressures I've felt to fulfill an image that our society has deemed the pinnacle of beauty. I like to adventure and I love to try new foods—especially if they're spicy. So let go of your demons and learn to enjoy the things you love in life. You can be healthy and happy. I've had this idea for a long time and I'm glad I finally did it!”

While watching this video, I saw my body as Steel’s body. I’ve done what she demonstrated in this video. I saw my eyes create ropes around the middle of my stomach to suck in the pieces I wasn’t pleased about. I saw my stomach moving around in circles in an attempt to find the most appealing placement my body could make. And while watching the most beautiful demonstration of the unfairness this world has caused us to make unrealistic expectations of our body, I wondered how many more drawings and organizations and pep-talks we’ll need to start loving our body.

I follow hundreds of organizations that tell us to love our bodies, to love others and to be kind to others. New organizations with new approaches are created each day. I see at least five “love your body” posts on Facebook daily. Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing people use their talents to create beauty and hope for others. That’s my goal in life too: to use my words to make people feel loved, less alone and filled with hope.

I’m just confused why I’m still struggling with my body image after I know that we are all on the same page. We all want to feel like we can love our skin. We all want to walk out the door every morning confident and think that we are having a great hair day. We all want to not feel so bad about having that one brownie every once in awhile.

That’s just not the case, though. We sometimes cry in dressing rooms because we wanted that black dress to fit us, and it just doesn’t look like it does on the girl in the picture. We spend a tremendous amount of time on our hair, and when it doesn’t fall in the right places, our back gets tense from stress. And we keep finding too much value in our looks rather than our brains and our personality because, no matter how many inspirational posts there are about loving our body, we still don’t.

I think it’s because we’re not telling the people around us that they’re beautiful. It’s one thing to watch a video and feel less alone in our body image struggles, but it’s another thing to feel completely beautiful in our own skin.

It’s time to start a movement. This place of simply telling the ones we care about, the ones we see as insanely beautiful, that they are simply and wonderfully and creatively made. That we are happy that they are in our lives and that we find them spectacular. That they are truly beautiful the way that they are made.

Maybe that would help with negative body images and body disorders. It’s an insanely beautiful thing to use our platform to make people feel less alone, but we need to take the lessons we are learning from these drawings, organizations and writings and spread them into other people’s lives. We need to stop looking at things as trends and insightful and start living what we are learning.