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description: When women are told that what is important about us is how we look it becomes increasingly difficult for us to feel comfortable with our appearance and how we feel about our bodies. We are told over and overif we just lost weight fit into those old jeans or into a new smaller pairwe will be happier and feel better about ourselves. The truth is so many women despise their appearance weight and shape that experts who study womens body image now consider this feeling to be normal.But it does not have to be that way. It is possible for us as women to love ourselves our bodies as we are. We need a new story about what it means to be a woman in this world. Based on her original research Hillary L McBride shares the true stories of young women and their mothers and provides unique insights into how our relationships with our bodies are shaped by what we see around us and the specific things we can do to have healthier relationships with our appearance and all the other parts of ourselves that make us women.In Mothers Daughters and Body Image McBride tells her own story of recovery from an eating disorder and how her struggles led her to dream of a new vision for womanhoodfrom one without body shame negative comparisons or insecurities to one of freedom connection and acceptance.
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title: Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are
publisher: Post Hill Press