Embracing our BODIES
‘I’M NOT HIDING MY TRUE SELF ANY MORE’
Lindsey Beveridge, 54, is a registered nutritional therapy practitioner living in Manchester with her husband, John, 61, and her daughter.
Growing up in South Africa with my hypercritical mum, I never had much body confidence. I struggled with binge eating. The more I ate, the more my mum would criticise. At 14, I hated my unhealthy body and I turned to drinking and smoking to mask my poor self-confidence. On the surface, my life seemed normal, but in private, my drinking was becoming out of control.
There were other parts of my life I was covering up, too. My dark brunette
