Miss District of Columbia USA 2010, MacKenzie Green, opens up about online bullying
January 29, 2015 by Jacob Burman
Filed under Body Image, Bullying, Empowerment, Exercise, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Fitness, Healthy Communication, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness, Wellness
Please tell us about yourself and what you do? My name is MacKenzie Green. I guess most people may know me as former Miss District of Columbia USA 2010. I was not a pageant girl growing up; I was a jock, former Junior Olympian and D1 athlete, so entering in to the world of pageantry […]
This Year’s Goal: Learn To Love Your Body
January 2, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, HAES, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Wellness, Wellness
Graciously re-posted courtesy of www.yourtango.com/experts/laura-cipullo, It’s a brand new year. Typically, we start January with ambitious new year’s resolutions that we may or may not have real success with. This year I ask you to step out of the traditional box and resolve to forgo the gimmicky “I will’s.” Instead, I urge you to join […]
Interview with actress Julia Cho: I am forging my own path
December 20, 2014 by Jacob Burman
Filed under Body Image, Bullying, Creative Art, Dance, Empowerment, Exercise, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Healthy Communication, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Wellness, Wellness, Yoga, Yoga and Meditation
Please tell us about yourself and what you do? I am an actor, an American-born child of Korean immigrant parents, and a native of Los Angeles. I am also a founding member of Artists at Play, a theatre-producing collective based in L.A. that presents work by Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists. Can you […]
Challenging the Thin Ideal
December 19, 2014 by iaedp
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, HAES, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Prevention, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Weight Stigma, Wellness
Graciously re-posted courtesy of www.psychologytoday.com/blog/eating-mindfully Approximately 50-70% of adolescent girls report feeling dissatisfied with their body. This dissatisfaction has been associated with a number of negative consequences including increased negative affect, decreased physical activity, and eating disorders. Exposure to media portraying the thin ideal of beauty has emerged as a cause of body dissatisfaction. Cognitive […]
What Do You Think You Deserve
December 3, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Empowerment, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Coping, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Wellness
Do you often eat food that isn’t good for you and that you’re not hungry for because you insist, “Well, why shouldn’t I eat it? I deserve it.” Truth is, when you feel truly deserving of good things, you don’t think this way. Yes, you do deserve to eat yummy foods, but with entitled eating, […]
News Flash: The AND Recommendations Feature Ellyn Satter’s Model
November 5, 2014 by iaedp
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Fat Talk, Food Revolution, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Prevention, Recovery, Wellness
Graciously re-posted courtesy of www.momdishesitout.com We are all inundated with nutrition messages. Messages range from our pediatricians to our mom friends, and of course from the media. Just last month, AND released their position paper on nutrition guidance for healthy children ages two through eleven. Well in 1999, I was introduced to the works of […]
Emotional Re-Activity
November 3, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Body Image, Featured, Nutrition, Recovery, Wellness
One thing I have noticed working with eating disorders is how much the emotional re-activity of someone affects their thoughts, actions and their body sensations. The eating disorder behavior whether it be through restricting, purging, over exercising, or binging is usually an emotional reaction to a triggering event. I often hear stories of people or […]
Body Image Myths and the Last Accepted Prejudice
October 24, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Body Image, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Guys, HAES, LGBT, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Weight Stigma, Wellness
A lot of us spend a lot of time consuming media from all directions. Print, online, video, audio. We are bombarded with messages about how we are supposed to look. For women, the pressure to achieve the ideal female body image is powerful. All-around we are shown images of hyper-slim, either tall or petite, large […]
Interview with host, Jackie Hollywood: Love What You Do
October 13, 2014 by Jacob Burman
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Music, Parents, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Volunteering, Wellness, What to Say, How to Say It
Please tell us about yourself and what you do? My name is Jackie Palatnikov (most people know me as Jackie Hollywood), I’m 25 years old, originally from San Francisco but currently living in West Hollywood. I’ve been working in the entertainment industry for 7 years now, mostly in radio, but have done my share of […]
The Body Image Revolution
August 1, 2014 by iaedp
Filed under Body Image, Bullying, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, HAES, Loving Your Body, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Obesity, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness
Something revolutionary happened this week. A woman posted a photograph of herself in her underwear on the Internet. Although there are thousands of pictures of women in their underwear on-line (and in magazines, catalogs, television, billboards, etc…), this picture was different. It was different because this woman is fat. Stella Boonshoft is an 18 year-old […]
