Could You Avoid Mirrors for 1 Year? Kjerstin Gruys Did
June 12, 2013 by ADRIENNE TRIER-BIENIEK
Filed under Activism, Advocacy, Body Image, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Finding Your Voice, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Mental Health, Music, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care
This past May sociology PhD candidate Kjerstin Gruys released the memoir “Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at it for a Year.” The book chronicled Gruys endeavor into wedding dress shopping, something that ended with her owning four possible wedding dresses. This experience, and her recovery […]
How Do You Define Beauty?
June 12, 2013 by Jodi Rubin
Filed under Body Image, Fat Talk, Freedom, Loving Your Body, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance
Merriam-Webster defines beauty as “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.” Pythagoras and Euclid attribute beauty to the geometric concept of the Golden Ratio (a+b is to a as a is to b). Science has even backed up the idea that this physical symmetry seems […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Astonishing Sexism of Hollywood and What it Means for Girls
January 16, 2013 by mamaV
Filed under Body Image
This Guest Post graciously submitted by Rachel Simmons. Every once in a while, an article comes out that is stunning in its honesty about a problem that people try to deny exists. On April 11, the New Yorker ran an article about the comic actress Anna Faris which, among other things, revealed the astonishing sexism of the film […]
Beauty is Everywhere!
July 3, 2012 by Arianna Merritt
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Coping, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Prevention, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings
I truly believe we all possess the ability to see the beautiful things in the world. If one looks closely, beauty is everywhere. Seeing beauty in the world starts with seeing beauty in oneself. This is a hard fact to realize: you don’t need to go find beauty; you take it with you wherever you […]
Are Women Pressured to be Covergirls?
June 21, 2012 by mamaV
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion
This guest post graciously submitted by Ashley Kervabon. A few days ago, I overheard some girls at work talking about why they wear make-up. One of them said “I always try to wear make-up to look better”. I thought about that sentence for a while and then said to myself : Wait, does that mean I […]
Our walls of “perfect” bodies need to come down…
May 28, 2012 by Doris Smeltzer
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Featured, Loving Your Body, Parents, Role Models, Self Esteem
Graciously re-posted from Gurze Publications: A while back, Tom and I took our spring break to travel to the East coast and present Andrea’s Voice where we were invited. We spoke to packed rooms, evidence of the desire for more information on eating disorders. After speaking at a university in New York, I received an […]
Jessica, if you are listening… “Your body is perfect, just as Maxwell!”
May 8, 2012 by Emma Wood
Filed under Depression, Empowerment, Fat Talk, Media Literacy, Nutrition, Pregnancy, Wellness
As many know Jessica Simpson gave birth to her first child last week, Maxwell Drew Johnson. Baby Maxwell, whose name has drawn harsh criticism (as if anyone’s opinion matters but mommy and daddy), was born at a beautifully healthy and hearty 9 lbs. 13 oz. 21 ¾. Maxi would be considered a larger baby when […]
What would you do to feel beautiful?
March 15, 2012 by MamaV
Filed under Body Image
Guest post from Stephanie Body image is a sensitive subject no matter where you are in the world, but after watching National Geographic’s television program “Taboo,” I gained some harsh perspective on the extremes people will reach to fulfill their desires to feel beautiful. From neck stretching in Thailand to breast ironing in Cameroon to silicone […]
