Three tips for accepting your body | Debra Montalvo | TEDxHarmony Science Academy Dallas High

[Music] I felt out of control lying on the bathroom floor at 23 years old, tears running down my face after consuming 40 laxatives in a single day. As a dancer living on my own for the first time, my thoughts and memories constantly haunted me. This journey started when I was 7 years old when my dance teacher gently patted me on my belly and said, "Lay off the cookies." Her words struck my spirit like a bullet.But that was the day my tumultuous lovehate relationship with my body began. My freshman year of h ...