See Jane… Struggle

I’m stealing this article from My Good Friend’s blog. This is a good read, especially if you have teenage daughters. I hope that we can move towards a church environment that encourages young girls to see themselves as made in God’s image, not as needing to be made in the image of anorexic movie stars…

See Jane.

See Jane become a teenager.

See Jane deal with her body.

See Jane struggle.

While adolescence has always been a time of physical (and all kinds of other) changes, the way teenage girls experience those changes is now, in fact, changing. As youth workers hustling to keep up with this shifting landscape, we are grateful for a recent batch of research that helps us keep pace and respond effectively to girls who look in the mirror and aren’t sure how to handle what they see.
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