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 [...]
Neutralizing Your Response to Your Body
March 12, 2013 by ANAD
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Bullying, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Loving Your Body, Parents, Recovery, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Sharing Feelings, Talking To Kids, Weight Stigma, Wellness
There are thousands of messages in the world that tell us that we are not perfect enough, not pretty enough, not thin enough. Most of these messages originate with the media. The media has been shaping our cultural norms for decades. The media preys on our humanness, our desire to fit in, our desire [...]
Emma Bell’s Painfully Powerful True Body Image War Story
March 12, 2013 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Guys, Healthy Communication, Loving Your Body, Moms & Sisters, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Talking To Kids
The talented and generous Emma Bell shares with Real Deal her painful story of being bullied … When I was 6 years old I got in trouble for kissing my ‘boyfriend’ in preschool during reading. We thought we’d get married. When I was in 1st grade I serenaded the boy I liked with a rousing [...]
Calories…Again??
October 18, 2012 by Marsha Hudnall
Filed under Dieting, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Featured, Food Revolution, HAES, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Talking To Kids, Wellness
In listening to a radio show discussing the impact of recently-released 2012 school lunch/breakfast regulations, a primary feature of which is the limitation of calories per meal, obviously in response to concern over children’s weights, it struck me once again how misguided is the focus on calories that public health initiatives continue to have. Certainly, [...]
Eating Disorders Tools for the Dog Days of Summer
July 12, 2012 by Becky Henry
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Featured, Healthy Communication, Parents, Self Esteem, Talking To Kids, What to Say, How to Say It
How can parents respond to the defensiveness of an eating disorder? We are in the midst of summer now, constantly barraged with advertisements showing airbrushed and photoshopped models in barely-there bikinis—images that can be severely destructive to a person’s self-esteem. Even the most self-confident person can be affected by these images. For those with eating [...]
10 Phrases That Every Child Needs to Hear
June 6, 2012 by mamaV
Filed under Featured, Healthy Communication, Parents, Role Models, Self Esteem, Talking To Kids, What to Say, How to Say It
This guest post graciously submitted by Laura Dessauer, Creativity Queen What would happen if…your child embodied these 10 phrases? Imagine the difference it would make in your child’s life. I call these the 10 commitments, the words your child needs to hear from you: You are lovable: No matter what, you are lovable. You do [...]
Is It Too Late to Apologize?
This Guest Post graciously submitted by Rachel Simmons. Hi Rachel, I started college last year and met my friend who quickly became a best friend. The problem is that later on in the year a third friend popped up to make a threesome and I didn’t handle the situation as gracefully as I could have. [...]
5 year old boy dares to dress as a girl, neighborhood moms freak.
April 18, 2012 by MamaV
Filed under Featured, Finding Your Voice, Guys, LGBT, Role Models, Self Esteem, Talking To Kids
WATRD blast from past, originally posted 11/2010 I found this story about a “Boo” a 5 year old boy who decided to dress up as Daphne from Scooby Doo quite interesting and I think you will too. His mother has an awesome post on the “aftermath” of Halloween, but here are the highlights. The kid [...]
No Belts For No Bullying.
March 15, 2012 by mamaV
Filed under Bullying, Featured, Healthy Communication, Martial Arts, Sharing Feelings, Spirituality, Talking To Kids
This guest post graciously submitted by Shihan Michelle Gay Today, on our first belt ceremony day, no new belts were given out at the dojo. Instead an impromptu protest was staged and we have declared our dojo to be a “bully free zone”. And we mean it. After a rash of dressing room events over [...]
My Very Own Dakota Fanning
October 29, 2010 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Loving Your Body, Moms & Sisters, Role Models, Self-Acceptance, Talking To Kids
This guest post provided by Dr. Dana from www.drudallweiner.com A few months ago my daughter and I were in Trader Joe’s, looking unkempt and bedraggled after some serious park time on a blustery, spring day. Along with everyone else, we elbowed our way through the bottle neck at fruits and vegetables, continued bumper to bumper [...]
