“Many women have told me that what they find the most triggering are those comments from people that are close to them, like friends and family—often mums, grandmas, and aunties. And that is so difficult,” Alex Light explains. “But I think we need to understand that they are also a product of their environments. Many of them spent their entire lives being faced with the idea that they needed to be thin. I think if you can realize that the issue lies with them and employ compassion, then I hope you will be in a much better place to have those comments bounce off you rather than internalizing
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