Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Loving the Body You Are Born With / Family Life Today

Here is Part #3 in the series this week from Family Life Today--Loving The Body You're Born With.  


THE LINK


Excerpt:
Bob: Do you remember the woman in the beginning of the fairy tale, "Sleeping Beauty?" The one who keeps looking in the mirror saying, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall; who's the fairest of them all?" If you're really the most beautiful, you don't have to worry about comparison, do you? Here is Nancy Stafford.

Nancy Stafford: That's maybe the biggest lie of all, because then when you feel beautiful, then the old thing kicks in of you're constantly looking over your shoulder – but how beautiful am I compared to her? So then the focus becomes being the thinnest, the prettiest, the fairest, at the party, because we‘re so desperate for that affirmation, and we love the attention that it garners us.


Actually, that quote is from the Disney film  Snow White, not Sleeping Beauty...

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