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How to shield children from inherited body shame

My daughter is eight and already worried about being fat, and I do not know how to protect her from a world that taught me the same fear.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Breaking cycles of self-hatred requires confronting the cultural forces that shaped your own relationship with your body.

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