[Note: This is a guest post from an amazing woman I met via twitter. I'm super excited to share her writing and her message! I think it is a CRITICAL message for everyone who has a daughter. Give Hilary a shout out via twitter or in the blog comments if you agree!]
If I had read the title of this post a few years ago, I
would have had two reactions: ‘that’s not possible’, and ‘tell me more.’ I
would have been split down the middle between believing that we exist in a
world where loving our bodies as women is nearing impossibility, and wanting
desperately to know that it didn’t have to be that way.
But
all of that doubt changed a few years ago. When trying to pick a topic for my master’s thesis, I kept coming back to the fear that I would one day have a
daughter who struggled with her body in the same way I have. So, my supervisor
and I set out to find young women who loved their bodies, and learn from them
and their mothers what went right.
Over
hours and hours of conversation with these women, and their mothers, we learned
two very important things.
First, it is possible
for young women to love their bodies, and their mothers absolutely had a role
to play in that.
