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Reply to "I start looking like my mom, and I understand her negativity late in life much better"
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[quote=Anonymous]I find exercise makes me feel good about myself no matter what. I not only have started looking like my mom, but I've been dealing with some mental health issues that really make me fear I could wind up like her. But every time I make choices to affirmatively reject what my mom became in midlife (exercise, therapy, meditation and mindfulness, and above all SELF LOVE), it's like a ward against that fate. I am deeply invested in the idea that you do not have to become your parents. You get to choose. Learn from their mistakes. Move your body, get fresh air, make and enjoy art, love yourself. I wish my mom had done this, but she didn't. I still can and I can showy daughter it's possible. A few extra pounds at midlife are not the end of the world. A little cushioning to soften some of life's more difficult moments. You deserve to love yourself OP.[/quote]
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