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Love this satirical look at the media's obsession with categorizing women's bodies by cartoonist Gemma Correll! To help instill the importance of loving yoursel...f in your Mighty Girl, regardless of your size or shape, we've shared a variety of empowering books for children and teens in our blog post, "30 Body Image Positive Books for Mighty Girls," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=10912 For an excellent new guide for tween girls on body image, we highly recommend "The Body Image Book for Girls: Love Yourself and Grow Up Fearless" for ages 10 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-body-image-book-for-girls For teen girls, we recommend "Body Image Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help Girls Develop a Healthy Body Image in an Image-Obsessed World" for ages 13 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/body-image-workbook For two great books for children about the importance of loving yourself, we also recommend "I Like Myself" for ages 3 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-like-myself) and "The Confidence Code for Girls" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-confidence-code-for-girls) Gemma Correll is also the author of a doodling journal "Doodling for Bookworms" at http://amzn.to/1SceWVf

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Going deeper in the story: This week, our family resources focus on grief, and remembering that everything has a time and season. Whether you’ve experienced the... personal grief of losing someone you loved deeply, or a more distant grief of someone you knew in your wider community, or the grief of all that has been lost in the last year during covid, these resources support that work with your families. ~Rondy On grief: Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children by Bryan Mellonie and Roger Ingpen https://youtu.be/zwwGBVa1j9A Cry Heart but Never Break By Glenn Ringtved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXLr3RTjIYk On missing people: The Invisible String by Patrice Karst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5w3dfVFxcw In a Jar by Deborah Marcero https://youtu.be/ssHpaQCjAzw On feeling all the feelings: It’s Not All Rainbows by Jessika von Innerebner https://youtu.be/tlXMnA3_Byw The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld https://youtu.be/9tR12SjvXzU A Time for Everything Song (loosely based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4F7uo7WpKg Tips, Strategies & Books to Help Children Cope with Covid-19 https://www.mhealth.org//tips-strategies-and-books-to-help A time to laugh... comics about parenting in 2020 https://www.huffpost.com//comics-parenting-2020-coronaviru

Have y’all seen this? Each kid has their own snowman to unwrap and the bottom gift is a toy, the middle gift is clothing, the top is their favorite snacks, and the card is either cash or a gift card! Super cute idea and keeps you from going overboard!

LM This. Hits. Hard. The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response.... Your I don’t need anyone, I’ll just do it all myself conditioning is a survival tactic. And you needed it to shield your heart from abuse, neglect, betrayal, and disappointment from those who could not or would not be there for you. From the parent who was absent and abandoned you by choice or the parent who was never home from working three jobs to feed and house you. From the lovers who offered sexual intimacy but never offered a safe haven that honored your heart. From the friendships and family who ALWAYS took more than they ever gave. From all the situations when someone told you we’re in this together or I got you then abandoned you, leaving you to pick up the pieces when shit got real, leaving you to handle your part and their part, too. From all the lies and all the betrayals. You learned along the way that you just couldn’t really trust people. Or that you could trust people, but only up to a certain point. Extreme-independence IS. A. TRUST. ISSUE. You learnt: if I don’t put myself in a situation where I rely on someone, I won’t have to be disappointed when they don’t show up for me, or when they drop the ball... because they will ALWAYS drop the ball EVENTUALLY right? You may even have been intentionally taught this protection strategy by generations of hurt ancestors who came before you. Extreme-independence is a preemptive strike against heartbreak. So, you don’t trust anyone. And you don’t trust yourself, either, to choose people. To trust is to hope, to trust is to be vulnerable. Never again, you vow. But no matter how you dress it up and display it proudly to make it seem like this level of independence is what you always wanted to be, in truth it’s your wounded, scarred, broken heart behind a protective brick wall. Impenetrable. Nothing gets in. No hurt gets in. But no love gets in either. Fortresses and armor are for those in battle, or who believe the battle is coming. It’s a trauma response. The good news is trauma that is acknowledged is trauma that can be healed. You are worthy of having support. You are worthy of having true partnership. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of having your heart held. You are worthy to be adored. You are worthy to be cherished. You are worthy to have someone say, You rest. I got this. And actually deliver on that promise. You are worthy to receive. You are worthy to receive. You are worthy. You don’t have to earn it. You don’t have to prove it. You don’t have to bargain for it. You don’t have to beg for it. You are worthy. Worthy. Simply because you exist. -Jamila White, @inspiredjamila

I didn't write this, but I feel its important to share. For the exhausted woman who showers a few minutes longer to cry with the water... For the person hidden ...in the bathroom, because she needs a few minutes of tranquility while slipping tears from her eyes. For the woman who is so tired that she feels she can't continue, that she would give anything to feel like herself again... For the woman who cries in her room when everyone leaves the house and for a moment she let's go... For the woman who desperately battles with self Confidence when wearing denim pants because she wants to look pretty and wear them to feel better but everything just climbs over or can't close... For the woman who orders pizza for dinner because she didn’t have the time to make dinner again as she expected... Because she's tired. For the woman who feels alone, even when she's accompanied. You're worth a lot. You are important. You are enough. You are wonderful... I love you... PLEASE SHARE This post might just save a life.

Tracks Going on a footprints walk is all about being observant of the things around you. All you need to do is look for footprints in the snow and try to identi...fy who/what made them. How many can you spot? Use an animal identification book to track them back to their owner. Can you make any guesses about what the animal might have been doing when it left the tracks? I wonder what footprints you leave behind? Can you change what story they tell? Play with leaving different tracks walking backwards or sideways, hopping on one foot, carrying someone. Does it look different? I wonder what the tracks in your life look like? What clues do you leave behind? Does seeking justice and loving kindness and walking humbly with your God leave tracks? Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbour as yourself. Luke 10:27 This is the verse leading into the parable of the Good Samaritan. (Luke 10:25-37) Imagine you came along the road after this story took place what tracks would you see? What would they leave behind to tell the story? This might be fun to act it out in the snow and track it afterwards. What tracks do you leave in how you live? God, thank you for all of the creatures of the earth. Thank you for the ways we can learn from them by seeing their tracks. Help us to live in a way that leaves tracks of love and kindness behind us. Amen.