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Thanks to the modern miracle of the smartphone, we can shame ourselves with the push of a button.
We shame ourselves enough as it is.
We tend to judge those areas where we're the most vulnerable to feeling shame ourselves.
We are, in effect, building the walls of loneliness and shame ourselves.
So we shame ourselves and others into "shaping up" or try to prematurely cheer up to ease our discomfort with feeling sad, and we all end up the worse for it.
We can beat ourselves up about it, shame ourselves, tell ourselves that we should have been better, or we can take a deep breath and begin again with our self-worth intact.
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But I feel we shamed ourselves".
Our first task is to stop shaming ourselves and claim our agenda.
This is the cycle that designers send us into – coveting everything about a woman walking down the runway, tormenting ourselves to try to be like her and then shaming ourselves for failing miserably.
Julia: I also wanna shout out the way she told us not to body-shame ourselves, which has been a hard habit for me to break.
Whether we use the word "fat" in a negative way to body-shame ourselves or just doubt whether we're good enough, nearly every woman we talked to shared that she was critical of her appearance in the mirror, often on a daily basis.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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