The Best Holiday Gift? Keeping Your Mouth Shut About My Body
There’s so much more discuss anyway. Maybe it's the first time the family has gathered in a while, right? Isn’t anyone curious about—I don’t know—how or what I'm really doing, as opposed to how I look in a pair of jeans? “The holidays are purported to be about family, yet exaggerated praise about weight loss, comments about clothes fitting tighter or needing to lose ‘the freshman 15’ over break change the focus to something much more harmful,” Kara Lissy, LCSW, a psychotherapist at A Good Place Therapy, tells Glamour. “Food- and weight-centric comments take away from the real meaningful conversations like ‘How was your vacation?’ and ‘Are you learning anything interesting at school?’”
In other words, those “well-meaning” comments can spoil perfectly good family time and the priceless opportunity to connect on a deeper level.
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