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When generational body trauma repeats through parenting

My teenage daughter is bigger than me and I catch myself making comments about her food choices that sound exactly like my mother talking to me twenty years ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unconscious patterns of body shame transmit across generations until someone chooses to break the cycle.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Weight body size and health — beyond BMI?”

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