Being a Critical Consumer of Social Media: my imperfect birth story
May 16, 2013 by Emma Wood
Filed under Featured, Media Literacy, Pregnancy, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Compassion
My daughter is sleeping, one of her sporadic 2-3 hour breaks between diapers, feeding, crying, rocking and snuggling. I became a mother three weeks ago and I must say it has not been what I expected. I wanted to write a little about some things I have learned, or more accurately re-learned, during the last [...]
Can We Talk? The Truth About Social Media
April 10, 2013 by ANAD
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Featured, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Media Literacy, Parents, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Talking To Kids, Wellness, Wellness
Can We Talk? The Truth About Social Media Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest are now a part of my common vocabulary. I’ll admit, I’ve done my fair share of Facebook “creeping”, and I always have my iPhone or iPad with me. But, despite all this, I can honestly say that I don’t let social [...]
The Blessing of Affirmations
April 9, 2013 by Debra Hennesy
Filed under Activism, Anxiety, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Media Literacy, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Prevention, Recovery, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Spirituality, Stress Management, Treatment, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness, Writing and Poetry, Yoga, Yoga and Meditation, Yoga Therapy
When you look in the mirror, what’s the first thing you say to yourself? If you are like most women, it’s not something kind or complimentary. Most of us are WAY too hard on ourselves, and the media doesn’t help with that. Think about it…can you recall ONE company that promotes happiness with what IS [...]
Black Women and Fat and a Photo of a Girl Wearing Someone Else’s Face
April 1, 2013 by Tracy
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Healthy Eating, Media Literacy, Weight Stigma
This Guest Post graciously submitted by Kate Fridkis. It is not totally rare that I am moved to tears, but this time it was for a good reason. I was standing in a sleek little gallery on the Lower East Side, music beating in the background, as I looked at an enormous photograph of a little black girl [...]
#RealDeal Applauds First Lady Obama — “Health Not About Size or Weight!”
March 21, 2013 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Activism, Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Role Models
First Lady Obama, #RealDeal applauds and salutes you!! THANK YOU for lending your voice to help others learn that HEALTH is not just about size or weight and for stressing that every person’s body is intended to be different. It is time to put an end to weight obsession! From PRWire dated March 18, 2013 [...]
Ugly Ducklings Supporting NORMAL
March 19, 2013 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care
The Ugly Ducklings have come forward to help NORMAL and our mission of educating about mental health, eating disorders, body image, self-acceptance and stress-management through arts and mindfulness programs. We are so grateful!! The Ugly Ducklings is an initiative inspired by Jennifer Morrison of Once Upon a Time. A few weeks ago, Jennifer gave her Twitter supporters the [...]
Music and Healing
March 19, 2013 by ADRIENNE TRIER-BIENIEK
Filed under Empowerment, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Coping, Media Literacy, Mental Health, Music, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Treatment
Songs: Tori Amos “Silent All These Years” Alicia Keys “Brand New Me” Welcome to my first column for We are the Real Deal! I am very excited to be contributing to the website and to share my appreciation for music and pop culture. To introduce myself, I have PhD in sociology and I study the [...]
You Are Probably Not a Good Enough Feminist
March 19, 2013 by mamaV
Filed under Activism, Featured, Freedom, Media Literacy
This Guest Post graciously submitted and re-posted by Kate Fridkis EatTheDamnCake. I’m beginning to have no idea what “feminism” means. Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote this predictably inflammatory essay in The Atlantic about why some fictional-sounding wealthy housewives are responsible for the “war on women.” In it she said, “Let’s please be serious grown-ups: real feminists don’t depend on men.” [...]
The Generic Things That Make Us All Exquisitely Sexy
March 15, 2013 by mamaV
Filed under Body Image, Featured, Media Literacy, Mindfulness, Pregnancy, Spirituality
This guest post graciously submitted and re-posted by Kate Fridkis, from Eat The Damn Cake. Because I’ve decided to have a baby at some point, I figured I should learn more about birth. I mean, really, I should learn more about babies and toddlers and children and whatever they turn into after that, god help us, but that all [...]
Reclaim Your Body, Grow Into Your Edges, Change The World
March 12, 2013 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Activism, Activism, Advocacy, Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Politics, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Compassion
There are moments in life where the light bulb goes off and suddenly a thousand tiny dots are connected in the flash of an instant. This moment happened for me over the weekend at BEDA’s 2013 conference in Bethesda, Maryland, as I sat and listened to Carol Munter speak. I had only ever heard of [...]
