A very nice meme.

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willabark posted this in her journal and some of you have responded there. Those who have not, are invited, encouraged, nay comanded, to say it here and in your own journal!

We’re conditioned, particularly as women, to be self-deprecating, to not take up space, to not revel in our bodies and ourselves. We can get 150 comments in a thread about when we realized that we were aware our bodies weren’t up to snuff; let’s see how many we can generate praising ourselves.

Your mission: list at least five things you love about your body and yourself. Five is the floor; you can always do more. And no self-deprecation! No offsetting a compliment with a dig.

1. I am a warm and generous person.
2. I am intelligent.
3. I can carry on a conversation with people from just about any walk of life.
3. I am beautiful.
4. More specifically, I have big, beautiful Hazel eyes.
5. I have wonderful, happy, healthy long hair.
6. I have a marvelous hourglass body.
7. I have surrounded myself with generous, kind and loving people; whom I admire very much.