Your Weekly Body Image Check-in
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Checking in weekly with your body image can help you feel less overwhelmed and may even help you spot positive or negative patterns. Let’s do this!
No matter how you answered, kudos for taking the time to notice how you feel. Next question…
Having a small, easy action item helps you learn to take care of yourself and your body image. Ready for your last check-in question?
This week, notice if checking in with your body image helped you feel more empowered.
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Unresolved body image challenges aren’t a sign that there’s anything wrong with you. They're merely signs that you’re doing an amazing job at picking up on culturally dominant messaging (and, unfortunately, we know that the most persistent messages we receive about our bodies are negative). Most of us have something I call “the toxic mixtape,” a series of very loud messages that our brain plays on a loop unconsciously. Mine tells me that something is very, very