How Can We Eliminate Fat Chat Forever?
July 10, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Anxiety, Body Image, Bullying, Depression, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Loving Your Body, Mental Health, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness
I’ve wondered about this since I was in eighth grade. I stood in the lunchroom after school waiting for the bus by myself. None of my few friends were on a late bus so I was alone. Carla* sauntered up with Kerri*, who had the same birthday as me. I was wearing my brand new […]
Love Yourself and Make Your Summer Sizzle
June 3, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, HAES, Loving Your Body, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Spirituality, Stress Management, Wellness
Summer breezes, swimming on hot days, and steamy nights provide the perfect backdrop for a self love makeover. Enacting some of the principles of Spiritual Dating can make it happen! Spiritual Dating can take an unsatisfying romantic life and turn into a fulfilling, sensual, and emotionally safe celebration of love in all it’s forms. Here […]
Rise, Maya Angelou, Rise!
May 28, 2014 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Activism, Activism, Advocacy, Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Politics, Role Models, Self Esteem, Voice, Writing and Poetry
In dedication to Maya Angelou’s courage, vision, pioneering dedication to the written, spoken and living word, to her grace, sassiness and for teaching us — like no other — how to use and offer our voices, how to live with love in our hearts and courage in our souls, #Real Deal shares Maya Angelou’s poem, Still I […]
Am I Only 77% as Valuable as a Guy?
April 3, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Advocacy, Empowerment, Featured, Finances, Finding Your Voice, Media Literacy, Moms & Sisters, Parents, Politics, Self Esteem
Lately, we have been hearing a bit more in the media about the economic standing of women in the United States. Some of us might have heard that in forty percent of households women are the primary or only breadwinner. And we may have also heard that women make an average of seventy seven cents […]
awww, you’re so cute!
March 11, 2014 by Jodi Rubin
Filed under Parents, Role Models, Self Esteem, Talking To Kids
46% of 9-11 year-olds are “sometimes” or “very often” on diets, and 82% of their families are “sometimes” or “very often” on diets 42% of 1st – 3rd grade girls want to be thinner 51% of 9-10 year old girls feel better about themselves when they are dieting 9% of 9 year olds have vomited […]
Don’t Tell Yourself You Don’t Care Around Food
March 5, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Empowerment, Featured, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Livin in the Moment, Obesity, Recovery, Self-Care, Treatment, What to Say, How to Say It
Do you know the three words you never want to say to yourself when you’re faced with eating decisions? “I don’t care.” Say them and you know what food- and body-abusing road you’re heading down. The fact is, you do care. You care, you care, you care! Not long ago, I was privy to observing […]
Am I an Instrument or an Ornament?
February 25, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Body Image, Empowerment, Exercise, Featured, Guys, Healthy Eating, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Moms & Sisters, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Wellness
I just read a wonderful article on The Huffington Post. In it, Jennifer Aniston interviewed Gloria Steinem about life and feminism in 2014. It’s full of tons of great information but one especially potent statement stuck with me. Steinem said that women are taught to think of our bodies as ornaments and men are taught […]
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week: A Call To ACTION!
February 14, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Activism, Activism, Advocacy, Anorexia, Binge Eating, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Food Revolution, Freedom, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Obesity, Orthorexia, Over-Exercise, Parents, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Talking To Kids, Treatment, Weight Stigma, Wellness
Many people do not know that there is such a thing as National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. On February 23-March 1 is NEDA week. This week is important for many reasons, yet is rarely acknowledged in our culture. Eating disorders are commonly looked down upon, and I feel a big reason is because they are misunderstood. […]
Finding the Artist within: Art Therapy and Eating Disorders
January 20, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Anorexia, Art Therapy, Athletes, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Creative Art, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Music, Orthorexia, Over-Exercise, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management, Treatment, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness, Writing and Poetry
Art Therapy has been a powerful and effective coping skill that the eating disorder community has embraced for decades. Art therapy helps and challenges a person to create and to reflect on the process of the art making experience and the art work they create. This process is powerful especially for someone who is suffering […]
Empowered Dating: Loving Yourself, Having a Blast, & Treasuring What’s Important
November 20, 2013 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, Guys, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Stress Management, Wellness
What does it really mean to be empowered? Confident. Secure. Self-assured. Yes, but also striving, learning, seeking to grow. And even more than that, there can be vulnerability in empowerment. In fact, there can be anything within an empowered person because the essence of empowerment is self-acceptance. A person who accepts herself can learn confidence […]
