When you place the responsibility for someone else’s feelings or perspectives on your shoulders, you lose every single time. Just because you have grown up in a society conditioned to scorn fat people and view them as less than, just because you’ve navigated life in a bigger body and struggle to love yourself, doesn’t mean you’re not worthy of love. You deserve love and affection at any size, even if you’re having a hard time loving yourself. Self-love isn’t a lightning moment where all of a sudden it all comes together and years of self-deprecation are undone. Instead, it’s a puzzle. You put
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