What I want for you, and for all of us, is to have our appearance-focused worldviews disrupted. I want us to remember the experiences of ourselves as bodies that pull us out of what we think is going on in the minds of others and place us into our very selves. I want us to torch the ideals that are restrictive, damaging, and often unattainable, and learn instead to be present to and compassionate toward what is. Not at some later time—after we think we have changed our body until our appearance is acceptable—but now. And even if the stories about our appearances have been not so good, our
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