Dara Chadwick is the author of You’d Be So Pretty If…Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies—Even When We Don’t Love Our Own, which grew out of her experience as Shape magazine’s 2007 Weight-Loss Diary columnist. A former magazine staff editor, she’s a New England-based freelance journalist specializing in health, wellness and lifestyle topics.

No Mother's Day would be complete without one key emotion: guilt. Dara Chadwick, author of You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies—Even When We Don't Love Our Own explores how moms' subtle behaviors shape their daughters feelings about weight and body image.