Girlfriends, episode number 287. Learn to love your body. Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. This week we are talking about learning to love with your body. Body image is

such a difficult issue for so many women. I can't wait to dive into this important topic.

Let's get started.

Hey, girlfriends. How are you? Thanks for being here. I'm coming to you from the loft in my girls' bedroom.

So some of you remember last year, right around this time, I kind of took over this space, which is our girls' bedroom for years.

You know, we had the downstairs part of it, which, you know, we had a bunk bed in there

for our two younger girls.

And then the loft area was for our oldest daughter, catery for years.

Just a small space where she was able to sleep up here and have a little bit more privacy.

And now I'm at a stage of my life where all of my girls have moved out.

So this space is now available.

It was available last fall too when my daughter Gabby was still staying in this room.

But some of you will remember last year I switched this loft space into a sort of office.

And that was actually really helpful, especially in the middle of the winter when a lot of my

college kids were home. My son, who was working remotely, came home for a little while.

And my kids who were going to high school were remote, at least part time. Office space was at a

premium around here. So it was nice to have that little extra office space up here in the loft.

But then this past spring and summertime, I kind of lost my little extra office space because

kids used it for various things.

Kids put things in storage in here.

And my son, Stephen, who is really into making movies and videos, was using it for recording

that sort of thing. And then I came up here recently, and it was a complete disaster.

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