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.

Guest contributor and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Maria Scrimenti explains how, “When we feel triggered as adults, it’s often not our adult self that is activated. It is our child self showing up, unable to regulate their emotions and less able to access rational perspective. It’s like your adult self is being hijacked by your child self. Often, your child self feels unsafe and needs to know they are okay.” Maria shares an exercise to help us communicate with our inner child and forge a caring relationship with them, so that we can begin to heal the triggers we confront as adults.