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Self-Acceptance & body image

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How I Learned to Love My Imperfections

Even though it may sound a bit weird, loving your imperfections is really important! What’s your favourite imperfection about yourself ?

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Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance

Every day, American women and girls are besieged by images and messages that suggest their beauty is inadequate, inflicting immeasurable harm upon their confidence and sense of wellbeing.

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Living Without Shame: How We Can Empower Ourselves | Whitney Thore | TEDxGreensboro

How do we handle self-perception when our bodies don't match the ideal social image? The answer is to find a way to live without shame.

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FindCenterOnce you consider the extent of the magical thinking that tends to be tied in to the fantasy of thinness, you can understand how threatening it is to consider the idea that you may never get the thin body you crave. It means that you never get to become the person you want to be.

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Autobiography of a Face

I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life.

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With ‘No Fats, No Femmes,’ Fatima Jamal Aims for More than Just Visibility and Representation

“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”

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Iskra Lawrence Is Unapologetic About Her Curves | Fashion for All | Elle

Iskra Lawrence used to see herself as inferior. The images she saw in fashion made her feel like she wasn't welcome and didn't hold up to "model" standards. But, she didn't let other people's opinions - or a set of measurements - keep her from becoming one of the industry's rising stars.

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FindCenterAccepting your body is not just about physicality, it’s about accepting who you are, not continuing to wait until you become the person you imagine being.

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My Thinning Years: Starving the Gay Within

Jon Derek Croteau brings a heady mixture of raw emotion, pathos, and humor to his powerful journey from self-hatred and punishment to self-affirmation and healing as a gay man in My Thinning Years.

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BBC Three: #SORRYNOTSORRY for the Way We Look —Harnaam Kaur

Harnaam Kaur gathers together inspiring examples, to speak on the topic of individuality and the power that comes from being yourself, regardless of others opinions.

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