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Honor The Journey: Dealing With My Body Image

Posted on June 27, 2019

Having a positive body image?  In today’s society? Climbing Mount Everest seems like a more plausible achievement.  Name more than five people you know with positive body image confidence.  If you do, then bravo!  That is wonderful, but I think most of us fall into the category of struggling with our own body image regularly.  But that’s not our fault.  We have had standards that we were never intended to live up to.  In fact, society rolls a lot stronger…

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