The Chaos of Body Checking and How Peace With the Mirror Is Possible

I’ll never forget the moment my daughter needed me while I was in the middle of a body image meltdown. While comforting her, I realized the divide between these ways of being—chaotically body checking and comforting my child—was incongruent, too off the mark of who I wanted to be for my daughters—and for myself. That is the moment when I started to reconcile who I was in the mirror and who I already was for the people I love. Give a read to learn how peace with the mirror is possible.