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7 Tips For Loving Your Body — ‘Flaws’ and All

Loving Your Body, photo by Richard Mallett
Photograph by Richard Mallett

Loving your body in a media-perfect world requires conscious attention — here are 7 tips to help

Sadly, part of what it means to be human today is to point out something about yourself you don’t like — a perceived flaw that needs to be fixed.

We haven’t learned this behavior all on our own; we’re constantly being bombarded with images of ‘perfect’ bodies (albeit often airbrushed and sometimes completely reconstructed). We’re constantly being fed a message of the need to slim down and tone up. Want the job? Lose weight! Want

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