How to Help Your Daughter Build a Healthy Body Image

Not just conversations about weight, calories, clothing, or modesty. Not conversations centered around how a girl looks, whether she is “too much” or “not enough,” or how she compares to the other girls around her.

I think we need to go deeper. We need to talk about the heart.

Our daughters are growing up in a world that is constantly teaching them to evaluate themselves. Their stomach isn’t flat enough. Their legs aren’t thin enough. Their skin isn’t clear enough. Their hair isn’t right. Their clothes aren’t right. They need to be prettier, thinner, more desirable, more popular, more like the girl they just saw on their phone…..

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