I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They — Kjerstin Gruys, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year
I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They — Kjerstin Gruys, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year
I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They — Kjerstin Gruys, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year
I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They — Kjerstin Gruys, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year
I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They — Kjerstin Gruys, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year
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I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They fed into each other, so it was best to quell such thoughts before they gathered strength.

— Kjerstin Gruys, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year
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