Posted by Dinah on March 9, 2007, at 9:28:19
In reply to Re: This is the tough stuff for me » Dinah, posted by scratchpad on March 8, 2007, at 21:09:14
Well, I guess my theory is that if you see your mother when you look in the mirror, or parts of your mother, and if your feelings about your mother or your mother's body are negative, you will naturally feel negatively about your own body because you see it as being like your mother's.
Or that's how it works for me. I figure I can either figure out some way to not see my mother in the mirror, by focusing on the things that are different. Or if I can, I can try to see my grandma in the mirror instead. Or I can try to feel better about my mother. I also figure none of those things will ever happen.
What really amazes me is that in the ways I *can* change how I look to make myself look less like my mother, I don't really.
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