LOVE CONQUERS ALL:
The 12 Best LOVE YOUR BODY Blogs/Web Pages
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In honor of
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. I have compiled some blogs and web
pages that are wonderful tools for your journey to LOVE YOUR BODY.
LOVE CONQUERS ALL
I have noticed
that when we love our bodies, that is—engage in the practices of self-love, we protect
ourselves from self-harm. Self-care and
self-love are the anecdotes to the cultural pressures to judge, analyze, and
lose ourselves.
I also included a few resources for those
of us who are struggling with eating disorders. See the end of the blog : )
So go ahead- LOVE
YOUR BODY and here is how - have fun!!
ONE: The Body Positive
http://thebodypositive.org/
“The Body Positive transforms beliefs about beauty,
health, and identity, freeing people to use their talents and passion to change
the world instead of their bodies.”
TWO: Weightless (from Psychcentral)
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/weightless/
“Weightless is about
fostering a fulfilling body image and life, at any shape + size. It’s about
well-being, not weight.
Weightless is about
building a healthy relationship with food and yourself. It’s about transforming
your self-care, and finding self-acceptance and self-love.
Weightless is about
becoming a clever consumer and recognizing when women’s magazines and other
mediums tout unrealistic and damaging tips and standards.”
THREE: Audios Barbie
http://www.adiosbarbie.com/
“Adios, Barbie: The One Stop Body Image Shop
for Identity Issues including Size, Race, Media, and More!
Since
the dawn of the world wide web (or at least since 1998), AdiosBarbie.com has
been the only site whose mission is to broaden the concepts of body image to
include people of all ages, cultures, genders, abilities, sexual orientations,
races, and sizes. And while that’s a mouthful, we believe that body image, like
identity, happens in the mind. In fact, a person’s body image has very
little to do with one’s actual body. Rather, it comes from external influences,
beliefs, habits and conversations.”
Four: Already Pretty
http://www.alreadypretty.com/
Already Pretty blogger, “Sally McGraw is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer, blogger, and communications professional. She earned a creative writing degree from Binghamton University in 1998 and, after graduation, worked in the book and magazine publishing industry for 10 years. She has contributed writing to local newspapers, magazines, and websites throughout her entire professional life, and is an ongoing contributor to the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Huffington Post.”
FIVE: We are the Real Deal
http://wearetherealdeal.com/
“We Are The Real Deal is an educational blog universe instructing today’s youths on body image, healthy coping, nutrition and self-esteem via empowering content authored by professionals from arts, wellness, nutrition, yoga and psychology.
WATRD’s mission is to empower girls and women by providing a “safe”
space to learn about healthy body image, finding the voice, stress management
and to promote media literacy. The site is a program of the
mentalfitness, inc. national nonprofit."
SIX: Nourishing the Soul
“Pull a chair up to the table and…
…get
comfortable. Nourishing the Soul was created to be a forum for growth
and self-discovery, as well as a resource for the latest news, research, and
advocacy information in the fields of eating disorders and body image. Whether
you’ve experienced disordered eating, know someone who has, or simply want to
learn more about how our relationship with food and our bodies can become
distorted, I welcome you. I hope this site is not only a source of information,
but one of hope as well.”
SEVEN: Health at Every Size (HAES)
Health at Every Size is the
new peace movement.
Very
simply, it acknowledges that good health can best be realized independent from
considerations of size. It supports people—of all sizes—in addressing health
directly by adopting healthy behaviors – An excerpt from Health at Every Size: The Surprising
Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon, PhD.”
EIGHT: Love Your Body
“Every day, in
so many ways, the beauty industry (and the media in general) tell women and
girls that being admired, envied and desired based on their looks is a primary
function of true womanhood. The beauty template women are expected to follow is
extremely narrow, unrealistic and frequently hazardous to their health. The
Love Your Body campaign challenges the message that a woman's value is best
measured through her willingness and ability to embody current beauty
standards.”
NINE: Intuitive Eating
This
web page connects you with tons of resources, training materials, and
inspiration for eating with and for your body.
TEN: Hardy Girls Healthy Women
“Hardy
Girls Healthy Women (HGHW) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health
and well being of girls and women. Our vision is that all girls and women
experience equality, independence, and safety in their everyday lives. To that
end, our mission is to create opportunities, develop programs, and provide
services that empower them. Since day one, Hardy Girls programming, resources
and services have been powered by the latest research in girls' development.
Much of that research comes from the work of Hardy Girls co-creator and board
member, Lyn Mikel Brown.”
ELEVEN: Powered BY Girl
http://poweredbygirl.org/
“POWERED BY GIRL is an online media activism campaign for girls by girls. We exist to interrupt media sexism in all it’s racist, classist, homophobic forms with humor, satire, and the online tools at our disposal. Whether it’s a drawing, cartoon, poem, satiric remake of an ad, or a good old rant against the patriarchy, every post here is original work from our fantastic social media interns and guest girl bloggers. We consider ourselves culture jammers who call out the absurdity of who and what we’re expected to be in the media and in our daily lives.”
“POWERED BY GIRL is an online media activism campaign for girls by girls. We exist to interrupt media sexism in all it’s racist, classist, homophobic forms with humor, satire, and the online tools at our disposal. Whether it’s a drawing, cartoon, poem, satiric remake of an ad, or a good old rant against the patriarchy, every post here is original work from our fantastic social media interns and guest girl bloggers. We consider ourselves culture jammers who call out the absurdity of who and what we’re expected to be in the media and in our daily lives.”
TWELVE: The Body Love Conference
“The
Body Love Conference is a high energy, positive and progressive event where
women can come together to build a community in a supportive environment while
participating in revolutionary presentations and workshops. Backed by an
all-volunteer staff of dedicated body-positivity activists and artists, Baker’s
Body Love Conference dream is well on its way to becoming reality. Among
the body-positivity celebs already booked to attend are EffYourBeautyStandards
founder and model Tess Munster, and local celebrity photographer Jade Beall of
A Beautiful Body Project. With over 400 anticipated attendees and an all-day
program of presentations and workshops on a range of subjects – featuring the
history of the beauty myth, social concepts of aging, post-birth bodies,
clothing alteration, body-positive dance, overcoming self-hate with love, and
why it’s crucial to challenge and reform social norms, among others - The Body
Love Conference is attracting enthusiastic participants from Tucson and
beyond.”
LOVE CONQUERS ALL
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| A photo I took in Kenya in July 2013 |
ONE: Eating Disorder Hope
“Eating
Disorder Hope™ offers education, support, and inspiration to eating disorder
sufferers, their loved ones, and eating disorders treatment providers. Eating
Disorder Hope™ resources include articles on eating disorder treatment options, support
groups, recovery tools and more. Whether an individual struggles with bulimia, anorexia, body image distortion, or
binge-eating disorders, Eating Disorder Hope™ can help.
Eating
Disorder Hope™ promotes ending eating disordered behavior, embracing life and
pursuing recovery from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and other eating
disorders. Our mission is to foster appreciation of one’s uniqueness and value
in the world, unrelated to appearance, achievement or applause.”
TWO: Something Fishy
“We
are dedicated to raising awareness about eating disorders... emphasizing
always that eating disorders are NOT about food and weight; They are
just the symptoms of something deeper going on, inside. Something Fishy is
determined to remind each and every sufferer of anorexia,
bulimia,
compulsive
overeating and binge eating
disorder that they are not alone, and that complete recovery
is possible. If you are the loved-one of someone that suffers with an eating
disorder, use this website to educate yourself. The more you know, the more
you are equipped to provide the support your loved-one needs. If you have an eating
disorder, you can find help. You can recover.
And you deserve to do both.”
THREE: National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)
“NEDA supports
individuals and families affected by eating disorders, and serves as a catalyst
for prevention, cures and access to quality care.”
FOUR: Academy for Eating Disorders AED
“The
Academy for Eating Disorders is a global professional association committed to
leadership in eating disorders research, education, treatment and prevention.”
FIVE: Eating Disorder Help Gide
“If
you have an eating disorder, you may believe that being thin is the key to
being happy, or that if you can control what you eat, you’ll be able to control
your life. But the truth is that happiness, confidence, and self-empowerment
come from accepting yourself for who you truly are—and that’s only possible
with recovery.Overcoming
an eating disorder involves rediscovering who you are beyond your eating
habits, weight, and body image. It also involves learning to recognize and deal
with your emotions in healthy ways, rather than using food—whether by obsessing
about it, avoiding it, or overeating—as a substitute.”
SIX: ANAD http://www.anad.org/
National Association of Anorexia and Associated DisordersSEVEN: Families Empowered
http://members.feast-ed.org/Support for families with members struggling with eating disorders.
NOW GO OUT THERE AND LOVE YOUR BODY!
AND REMEMBER....
LOVE CONQUERS ALL!
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