I grew up listening to my mom bemoan everything from the size of her thighs to the shape of her eyes. So you can imagine my dismay the first time someone exclaimed, 'You look just like your mother!'
So begins You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies -- Even When We Don't Love Our Own (Da Capo Lifelong Books, May 2009), former Shape magazine columnist Dara Chadwick's guide to breaking the mother-daughter cycle of bad body image. With humor and compassion, Chadwick uses her own story -- as well as those of the women and girls she interviewed -- to reveal everything from what girls learn when mom diets to the trigger words that can set off a body image crisis. You'd Be So Pretty If... offers fresh and useful strategies to help you build a strong body image foundation for your daughter -- even if your own body is far from what you'd consider "perfect."
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Posted by: Dara Chadwick | 03/29/2010 at 05:48 AM
Dara,
Thanks for this list!!! I'm just compiling a resource list for "The Self-Compassion Diet: A Step-By-Step Program to Lose Weight with Loving-Kindness," and I surely want my readers to know about your blog. But I'm not familiar with these others. This is exactly what I needed! How did you know??
Jean
Posted by: Jean Fain | 03/29/2010 at 05:55 AM
Aw thanks for the link love, Dara! Gotta check out some of these other blogs now.
Posted by: Sagan | 03/29/2010 at 11:04 AM
Thank you Dara. Always love your insights and words here.
Posted by: Julie | 03/29/2010 at 02:11 PM
Thanks for the suggestions! You know I love reading about body image since I'm the mom of two girls.
Posted by: Karen Bannan | 03/30/2010 at 12:20 PM