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Body Positive Power: How learning to love yourself will save your life by Megan Jayne Crabbe

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

A beautiful book on loving yourself - all the time and at all sizes! Not just when you've reached your ideal weight...because even then you'll probably still find something you want to change about yourself. Challenged my own perspective on myself, as well as on my own misconceptions on fat, and my own judgements on fat being 'bad' or even equating to 'unhealthy.' Some bits of advice I'll have to research a little more into nutrition-wise (at least on a personal level), particularly surrounding weight not actually leading to a number of diseases as I have been taught all my life, though Megan has resources in her book to back up these claims. On a personal note, I've had to take some of that with a grain of salt, as being on the very short side and having disabilities, I know more weight does actually impact my physical health. HOWEVER, what I love most about this book is the declaration to love yourself at ALL sizes, shapes, abilities and forms. That we should celebrate ourselves and the body it comes in just for letting us experience this life, and to stop punishing it for not fitting into one ideal that very few can and will fit into! And that we all deserve to be seen in our rolls, pimples, freckles, stretch marks, scars, hairs, veins and all! This book changed my late sister, Chloe's, entire outlook on her body and life, and for that I could not be more thankful that it was written for her to discover and to pass on copies as a gift to encourage all of those she loved. Thank you Megan.
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