My friend Dianne Sylvan wrote a post entitled Ten Rules for Fat Girls.

I can’t stop reading it. I can’t stop crying about it.

It’s one of the best posts on self-acceptance I’ve ever read.

My favorite line: “Has hate ever made anyone a better person?”

She’s brash. She’s bold. She’s very serious. And she’s very right.

Regardless of whether you’re fat, thin, a girl, a boy, or anything in between, this is a very, very important post. So important, in fact, that I’m going to leave it at this:

Please go read it.

Then put the rules in place in your own life, however you can get them to fit, however they feel good and right to you.

Because loving yourself?

That’s the beginning step in the Connection Revolution, right there.