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Jun 2023
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076 | My Story of Body Shame and How I’m...

Jenna Griffith
About this episode
Body shame for me started, like most of us, at a young age. Growing up in purity culture meant that women’s bodies weren’t celebrated as beautiful — they were covered up so as not to cause our brothers in Christ to stumble. So when my curves started to develop as a young teen, I didn’t know how I should feel about my changing body. Nobody told me that my bod ... Show More
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