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How children inherit our relationship with our bodies

My 10-year-old daughter is already worried about being fat and I see her looking at herself in mirrors with disgust, and I know she learned this from watching me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Our unexamined self-criticism becomes the inner voice our children develop about themselves.

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