Why Body Shame Starts in Adolescence: Understanding the Developmental Wound No One Talks About

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Everyone does inner child work. Everyone talks about healing childhood wounds. But there’s a developmental stage we consistently skip over—the one where some of the deepest body shame, identity confusion, and self-worth wounds actually formed. Adolescence. Those years between 12 and 18 when your body changed dramatically, when you were figuring out who you were, […]