From this article , they quote a statistic that 50% of the 10,000 girls/young women polled by ELLEgirl, would rather be run over by a truck than be fat.
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This is republished from First Ourselves. It's a nice mid-week reminder to take a breath and give ourselves a break.
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Greenstone Media was founded by Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, and other women. This radio network was dedicated to putting the voice of women on the air and providing talk radio that women wanted. Of the 11,000 radio stations in the U.S.A., few have female program directors. Women are leaving radio in droves, and Greenstone Media was created to fill the space that was the sound women wanted.
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I spent years as a Mommy martyr, putting my needs below everyone else's (including the dog's.) My husband would encourage me to go out with friends, take a run, or ask for help. But I always had a reason why I couldn't. Here is just a partial list of the excuses I've used to deny myself support and joy: |
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I believe that learning to love and accept our bodies is one of the greatest issues facing women today: I have yet to meet a woman who is unaffected by body image "stuff." And while body bashing manifests as a physical issue, I believe that it is, at its core, a spiritual one: a drive for perfection, rooted in a fear of unworthiness. Bashing our bodies for being imperfect -- fat, flabby, wrinkled, grey, stretch marked -- isn't really about our bodies. We see ourselves as imperfect, and therefore, unacceptable. Our bodies, because they're the part of ourselves that is most visible to the world, are simply the most convenient scapegoat: the outer target of our inner critic.
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