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✨🏫 Healing Your Younger Self’s Body Image ❤️‍🩹✨

✨ LISTEN… middle school and high school did a NUMBER on a lot of us. The comments, the comparisons, the puberty body changes nobody warned us about, it sticks with you more than you realize. I fully believe so many of our adult insecurities didn’t start at 21… they started at 12. The teasing, the locker room stares, the “you’re too big”, “you’re too skinny,” “you look grown”, you look childish”… it all shapes how we see ourselves now.

✨ Even today, I’ll catch myself reacting to something and realize it’s not adult me, it’s younger me still trying to feel safe in her body. And honestly? A lot of healing is giving that version of you the compassion she never got.

💬 Do you feel your middle or high school body image trauma still affects you today? Let’s talk about it down below! ⬇️

#GirlTalk #lemon8challenge #overcomingbodydysmorphia #selflove #bodytransformation

2025/11/16 Edited to

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I wish I could look like i did back in JR and High School again!

No middle school wasn't bad for me it was when I got older that my weight became a trauma, it's easy to get and hard to get ride of

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