Tag: BODY LOVE
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Body Shame; We taught her that.
My story about body shame, confidence, and finding my way out is too familiar to need repeating. I was a young woman who wanted a body that was different from the one I had. So I starved and strived and exercised and counted and struggled. My body never did change that much. Why did I…
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Confident You: 10 ways to love your body more
I asked readers of this blog what the number one problem they were dealing with relating to confidence. Do you want to guess what the number one response was? The number one response was body confidence. How to have body confidence, where it came from and how to keep it when people around you are…
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Confident You: Body confidence, how do you do that?
It’s a tricky thing, writing this without sounding boastful or conceited or whatever the correct version of that is. So let’s just say for argument’s sake I’m not any of those things and I’m trying to help. Then we can move on and I can stop pussyfooting around it being awkward and say what there…
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Aussie Curves: Swimwear
I’ve been pondering swimwear week a little more than is actually necessary. And not the reasons most are; as they debate what they will and won’t show, will and won’t do. I had what I planned to wear organised. A cute outfit and the gorgeous swimmers I was sent for this post sponsored by Sequins…
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Loving your body is just like any other kind of love.
Relationships take work. The relationship with your body takes work and I don’t necessarily mean at the gym. I post about my clothing choices, my life and my body in a bit of a haphazard way. Sharing and over-sharing when it takes my fancy. People assume my body and I have a rosy romantical love…
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Every. Single. Time.
Every time you tell a woman to cover her chunky arms. When you question the health of a slim model or berate a fatter one. Every single time you tell a Mother to be discreet while feeding her baby. When you say those shorts are too short. Every time you decide that she should be…
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My Guts on the Page {I <3 My Body}
Today is when women {and men, I assume} get the opportunity to proclaim loud and proud that they LOVE their bodies. The challenge laid down by the We Heart Life team is to declare three things that you love about your body. What you love can be anything you like. Anything at all. When I…
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