You don’t need a plan or a script tonight, just a few honest sentences you can say out loud, right when it counts.
“Your body's job is what it can do, not how it looks in a photo.”
“I noticed how hard you worked at that, more than how you looked doing it.”
“Comparing yourself to a feed isn't a fair fight.”
Shifting the compliment from appearance to what the body actually does is what protects a shaky self-image.
In their story, the focus moves away from how a character looks and onto what they can actually do, and what they mean to the people around them.
It ends with a real moment of self-recognition, one that has nothing to do with how anyone else is looking at them.
Read more: Stories and Self-Esteem: Building a Steadier Sense of Self
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