Love Your Body 2008: Pledge Allegiance to Your Body
Congratulations to Fighting Windmills! She signed the Body Warrior Pledge last week and was entered into a drawing for a byoo-tee tee-shirt. Today, her name was drawn as last […]
Love Your Body 2008: Pledge Allegiance to Your Body
So, here’s the deal. Love Your Body Day is 2 weeks away and my goal is to get all of you to sign a pledge to be your own body […]
Love Your Body
October 15th is Love Your Body Day. One day where NOW wants us all to concentrate on loving our body– not because of what it looks like but because of […]
The perfect comeback
So, Friday’s class topic was Parents, Peers, and Body Image. It was a rich discussion– and we all realized that, unfortunately, a lot of the ways the we […]
Dear Body
I saw a write-up on the Dear Body You Tube movement in Fitness Magazine’s September issue and just had to go check it out. So here’s the deal: Molly Templeton posted a […]
An Assignment
So, the first assignment I am giving my body image seminar students is to write a body image autobiography. Here’s the background and the questions if you are so inclined… […]
Thanks, body.
in honor of day one of the body image course I am teaching this semester… Why, I say, should I ever have bitterly blamed [my body] for such trifles as […]
The First Day of School
So my first day teaching again after a few years is on Friday. When I was teaching high school, my special treat to myself was a first day of school […]
Bigger Stronger Faster *
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8nOKJTL6Tg] I am looking into media (documentaries, movies, etc) to share with my body image class this fall and came across Bigger Stronger Faster* in my research. This documentary is […]
Mirror, mirror on the wall
the forehead (pre-expression lines) I was beginning to worry about… the haircut (circa 1992) I have returned to… I caught a few minutes of What Not to Wear today and […]
