3 Common Phrases to Avoid Saying to Your Kids (and What To Say Instead)
Learning to love yourself is hard work. I did not grow up loving myself. Instead, I always felt inadequate, and…
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Learning to love yourself is hard work. I did not grow up loving myself. Instead, I always felt inadequate, and…
Continue ReadingMy daughter and I were chatting about her day when she nonchalantly said, “I didn’t get invited to my friend’s…
Continue ReadingI remember being 10 years old and having my first experience with not liking my body. I learned from that…
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…
Continue ReadingThere are lots of things I know I want to do or be as a mother. One of my biggest…
Continue ReadingI’ve spent most of my life being a doormat. I was terrified that someone wouldn’t like me, and I spent…
Continue ReadingI was an awkward kid. I preferred playing sports with the boys in my jeans and T-shirts instead of talking…
Continue ReadingWe were driving to see a movie when I asked Norah why she’d been calling herself fat recently. We were…
Continue ReadingBeautiful girl, When you are finished falling, after you hit rock bottom and watch yourself come apart into a million…
Continue Reading118. That was the number on the scale just before I realized I needed help. 118 pounds. It’s really not…
Continue ReadingHey, sweetie . . . it's mom. I’ve been feeling a little unsettled lately. Not just "life is crazy and…
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