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Body Image
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. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. (p. 44)
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― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
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We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it.
Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.
Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of women admires what shows of her past on a woman's face, be
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― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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June 2-6, 2014: Monica Parker, author of the new best seller "Getting Waisted: A Survival Guide …more
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last active 6 years ago
Stretching our brains to consider topics inspired by Kim Brittingham's body image memoir, Read M…more
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last active 15 years ago
A bookshelf to guide you on your healing journey with food, body image, anxiety, and other stres…more
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last active 7 years ago
