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What Selfies Can Teach Moms

ByTara Cousineau January 29, 2014February 28, 2014
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Moms, do you shiver when your daughters constantly take selflies.

Do they mock you when you take one of yourself?

Been there, done that!

This video from DOVE might change the way you view your daughter’s obsession with selflies. Or it may not. You decide.

It’s worth a peek. If anything, it may make you think about how your body image and expectations for beauty might influence hers.

Post Tags: #beauty#body image#Daughters#DOVE#Mothers#Self Esteem#self lies#social media

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I call it kindfulness. Being present with your ow I call it kindfulness.

Being present with your own experience, and meeting it with some warmth.

Not fixing what you find. Not analyzing it.

Just staying with it, the way you'd stay with a friend who is having a hard day.

A reminder from the book 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩'𝙨 𝘿𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙢𝙖

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Perfectionists tend to do the opposite. We start Perfectionists tend to do the opposite.

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The bar isn't mastery. It's just returning.

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Not perfectly. Not daily without exception. Not w Not perfectly. Not daily without exception.

Not with a special cushion and 45 uninterrupted minutes.

Consistently enough that your nervous system starts to trust the rhythm.

That's a very different bar. A much more reachable one.

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