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How one comment can steal years of joy from movement

I love swimming but I haven't been in a pool since someone made a comment about my body in a bathing suit three years ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A single moment of external judgment has been internalized so deeply that it overrides years of positive embodied experience.

Ideas that help explain it
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