“Act Like a Lady”? Nah.
April 4, 2013 by ADRIENNE TRIER-BIENIEK
Filed under Dance, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Livin in the Moment, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings
I run the Facebook page “Pop Culture Feminism“, a page dedicated to presenting challenges to the media’s representation of beauty. I spend a lot of time googling around, looking for positive body images quotes as well as inspirational sayings. I have seen my fair share of the oddities that the internet can serve up (my [...]
Dancing Again
March 25, 2013 by mamaV
Filed under Dance, Dance Movement Therapy, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Freedom, Loving Your Body, Recovery, Role Models, Self Esteem, Sharing Feelings, Spirituality, Treatment, Wellness
This Guest Post graciously submitted by Mandi Degner. Last week, I finally took a long and honest look at myself in a mirror for the first time in my available memory of life. I didn’t hate her. I didn’t yell at her. I didn’t tell her she was ugly. On Tuesday, I just looked. On [...]
I Rise.
January 29, 2013 by Joslyn Smith
Filed under Activism, Body Image, Dance, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Loving Your Body, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Self-Compassion
As I contemplate my present life and where my life will lead next, I repeatedly return to the idea of reclamation. Body reclamation. For me, reclaiming my body coincides with reclaiming my life. Reclaiming my body – in a myriad of ways – continues to be the single most important commitment I make each day as [...]
this is your brain on dance
June 2, 2012 by Jodi Rubin
Filed under Anxiety, Dance, Dance Movement Therapy, Exercise, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Loving Your Body, Mental Health, Movement, PTSD, Self-Care, Wellness
Scientific American’s 2008 article explains that “unconscious entrainment – the process that causes us to absent-mindedly tap our feet to a beat – reflects our instinct for dance.” It would seem that our brains have evolved around rhythm! Throughout all of the movement tasks in their study, there was activation in areas of the brain that correlate [...]
4 Keys To Improving Your Body Image
April 18, 2012 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Body Image, Cooking and Culinary Arts, Creative Art, Dance, Expressive Arts, Featured, Film, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Martial Arts, Mindfulness, Movement, Music, Sharing Feelings, Spirituality, Stress Management, Theatre, Voice, Volunteering, Writing and Poetry, Yoga, Yoga and Meditation
Graciously re-posted from Gurze Publications Whether we are in grade school, high school, college — or beyond — we can benefit from increasing our body esteem. We know that negative body image contributes directly to an array of issues, to overall dissatisfaction and unhappiness, but also it is important to see that our bodies also [...]
Dance/Movement Therapy: Accessing the Language of the Body
March 9, 2012 by Susan Kleinman
Filed under Body Image, Dance, Dance Movement Therapy, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Movement, Self-Care, Wellness
The Language of the Body Movement defines us from the first kick in our mother’s womb till our final breath, and we participate in a dance of life, communicating through our bodies long before we learn to speak using verbal language. Throughout our lives, body language remains our most natural means of recognizing our needs [...]
