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Write about an early memory of body shame

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Dec 12, 2023
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Write about an early memory of body shame.

It is hard to write about shame, right? Even just writing about it, we feel the shame all over again. Shame, at its core, is linked to hiding because of some feeling of disgrace or disapproval. Often, this shame isn’t even ours, to begin with, but a shame passed on by another, by an attachment and societal expec…

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