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Learning to Accept (if Not Love) My Scar

By Steven Petrow — 2017

The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.

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‘It Has Taught Me Life Is too Short to Be Negative About My Body’: This Is How Cancer Really Affects Your Body Image

I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!

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Bianca London
2019
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How to Reinforce Positive Support & Mitigate Toxic Relationships During and After Treatment

We each have the power within ourselves to make this diagnosis seem like a gift. Use it to weed out the toxic relationships and reinforce the positive support squad you deserve.

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Samantha Harris
2020
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Readers Write/Vanity

I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.

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Readers of The Sun Magazine
2003
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I Love My Mastectomy Scars, But My Relationship with My Body Is More Complicated

Paige More gets real about what it was like to be a body positivity advocate who didn’t love her own body, and how she’s repairing her relationship with it now.

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Paige More
2019
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Michael Phelps: ‘I Can’t See Any More Suicides’

In the documentary “The Weight of Gold,” Phelps presents a stark picture of the mental wear and tear Olympians endure.

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Matthew Futterman
2020
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The Antidote for Shame

The author of Discovering Your Soul Signature reveals how to free yourself—finally.

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Panache Desai
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Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common

In Rising Strong (public library), Brown builds upon her earlier work on vulnerability to examine the character qualities, emotional patterns, and habits of mind that enable people to transcend the catastrophes of life, from personal heartbreak to professional collapse, and emerge not only unbroken...

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Maria Popova
2015
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“Vulnerability”

Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without, vulnerability is not a choice, vulnerability is the underlying, ever present and abiding undercurrent of our natural state.

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David Whyte
2016
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Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass on Bringing Fear Close

As long as you think vulnerability is weakness, you’re going to be afraid. Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass on the kind of vulnerability that’s actually strength.

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Ram Dass, Mirabai Bush
2018
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How to Listen to Pain

Why do we feel shame and how does shame change us?

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Jill Suttie
2016
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