Healthy Mama Magazine Purple Issue - May 2015 | Page 15

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if I’m doing a
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tance as well
me w
me accep
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over it! Also, w
her playgrou
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is fearless, so
she
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strengths and
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tions to
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repeat affirma
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climbing up a
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are brave like
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affirmat ions
to her, so she
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