15 Things a Body Image Coach Wishes You Knew

Think of your body size like your shoe size

You don’t spend hours in front of the mirror pining to be the “perfect” size 7 shoe, so why give that treatment to the rest of your body? You shouldn’t, says Susan Albers, PSyD, a clinical psychiatrist at the Cleveland Clinic and author of six books on mindful eating. “It can be a big leap to go straight from ‘I hate my body’ to ‘I love my body,’ so I tell my clients to work on acceptance, first. We accept our foot size and don’t try to change it, and we can do the same with our body,” she says. Try these 22 powerful ways to remind yourself how worthy you truly are.

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