40 Is the Age I Finally Arrive
I’m turning forty in a few short months. Forty. In my younger years, I assumed 40 would be the age…
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I’m turning forty in a few short months. Forty. In my younger years, I assumed 40 would be the age…
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Continue ReadingI was looking in the mirror at my shape and size and was thoroughly disgusted by what I saw. Initially,…
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Continue ReadingLearning to love yourself is hard work. I did not grow up loving myself. Instead, I always felt inadequate, and…
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Continue ReadingI am brave. I am beautiful. I am His. Some days it’s an eye roll, the kind only a daughter…
Continue ReadingI became a teenager in the '90s. Where the models were stick-thin. Curves were disgusting. Boobs were shameful. And anything…
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