Fighting Thinspo!

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:05 +1000

infiniteharmonies:

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:42:03 +1000

Pro-Eating Disorder Propaganda Proliferates On The Internet

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:31:00 +1000

Pro-Eating Disorder Propaganda Proliferates On The Internet:

Please listen to this interview.

Vogue eager to make an issue of real women

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:27:00 +1000

Vogue eager to make an issue of real women:

THIS month marks the first anniversary of international Vogue editors signing a health initiative to promote positive body image within their pages. Read more

The Body Is Not An Apology: Where Are All the Disabled People in the Body Positivity Campaigns?

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:20 +1000

The Body Is Not An Apology: Where Are All the Disabled People in the Body Positivity Campaigns?:

thebodyisnotanapology:

Where Are All the Disabled People in the Body Positivity Campaigns?
by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg, Content Intern

As I’ve become more aware of myself and my standpoint as a disabled person, I’ve become more aware of how many otherwise progressive causes ignore us. For example, in academia,…

beaucoo: 10 Ways to Improve Body Image

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:04:47 +1000

beaucoo:

10 Ways to Improve Body Image

BeauCoo Body Positive (#BoPo)

Sun, 05 May 2013 07:50:54 +1000

BeauCoo Body Positive (#BoPo):

BeauCoo is the worlds only body positive style network, we connect women of similar dimensions to explore, learn, discuss, share clothing. Join the #BoPo (body positive) community today!…

Please check out BeauCoo Body Positve. <3<3<3

Dove Real Beauty Sketches <3

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:08:05 +1000

Dove Real Beauty Sketches <3

ifwewerefeckless: #hair #me #girl...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:33:51 +1000

ifwewerefeckless:

#hair #me #girl #kensaiditurnedintoaboybutiloveit

The daring new haircut looks amazing <3<3<3

ifwewerefeckless: vamoose: people put people in boxesand I was too weird for the normal boxand too...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:32:31 +1000

ifwewerefeckless:

vamoose:

people put people in boxes
and I was too weird for the normal box
and too normal for the weird box
and there seemed to be no space for me in between
I’ll admit my first instinct was “shrink.”
must get smaller must get smaller
must fit
but now I realize that I will never be
as thin as the air itself
and I’m done playing with box cutters

make room for me

oh this hurts because it’s true

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:29:28 +1000

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NEDC - The National Eating Disorder Collaboration

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:26:25 +1000

NEDC - The National Eating Disorder Collaboration:

For everything you ever need to know about eating disorders and where and how to find help.

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Eating disorders in males

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:24:20 +1000

Eating disorders in males:

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses. While they are often portrayed as disorders that only affect females, one in ten people diagnosed with an eating disorder are male. However, we also know that the under-diagnosis and the cultural stigma boys and men face means that the actual proportion of males with eating disorders could be much higher. For instance, we know that as many men experience binge eating disorder as women in their lifetime. Recent studies are indicating that the real figure could be that up to 25% of people with eating disorders are male.

Eating disorders can develop at any age but males and females are most at risk for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in their late teens/early twenties, while binge eating disorder is more prevalent in a person in their mid-twenties.

Raising money for Cystic Fibrosis NSW

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:43:56 +1000

Raising money for Cystic Fibrosis NSW:

My beautiful niece Elizabeth has Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common, genetically acquired, life-shortening chronic illness affecting young Australians today. It primarily affects the lungs and the digestive system, however, it also affects a number of other organs and systems. Complications increase with age, requiring ever increasing levels of (self) care and support. On average one in 25 people carry the CF gene (most of whom are unaware they are carriers). To find out more about CF go to http://www.cysticfibrosis.org.au/ Rachel Williams Elizabeth ‘s sister in law has begun this fundraising challenge raise funds for research and hopefully a cure one day. Please support. <3

When will the fashion and modelling industries get a clue.

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:11:25 +1000

When will the fashion and modelling industries get a clue.:

Likening the fashion and modelling industry to drug dealing may seem like a harsh comparison, but according to Christine Morgan, CEO of eating disorders group The Butterfly Foundation, it’s unfortunately an accurate one.

In an interview in The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, Morgan said that the adulation the fashion industry heaps on extremely thin women was “…akin to giving young kids (the drug) ice. Some of them are going to end up addicts.”

In the words of every teenage girl at the mall: Way harsh. But also… true.

Given the look of some of today’s most popular high fashion models – and the fact that 90% of Australian girls aged 12-17 have been on some kind of diet – it appears that sadly, she may have a point.

When models are fainting, tissues are being eaten and women have waists the size of seven-year-old girls, it’s obvious that things in high fashion have spiralled out of control.

Obvious to everyone it would seem, except the people working in high fashion.

iaedp 2013 Highlights: Binge Eating, ACT Therapy, and More

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:49:05 +1000

iaedp 2013 Highlights: Binge Eating, ACT Therapy, and More:

The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) held their annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada over March 20 – 24th, 2013. Eating Disorder Hope attended the event, and we brought back some interesting highlights for eating disorder suffers and their loved ones.

The upcoming Diagnostics and Statistics Manual (DSMV) was reviewed at the conference, and the new definitions of eating disorders were outlined. Some important changes are being made in the diagnosis of eating disorders that will affect how eating disorders are diagnosed and treated. For example, Binge Eating Disorder is now categorized as an eating disorder, in and of itself, rather than the former murky definition of it being listed under Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS), which was somewhat of catchall for everything besides the pure and uncompromised old DSM-IV definitions of anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder.

Another key change coming in the new DSMV definitions is that amenorrhea (lack of a menstrual cycle) is no longer part of the diagnosis of anorexia. This is helpful because there are cases where girls or women do menstruate and yet also have the disease of anorexia nervosa, and the requirement of amenorrhea to diagnose anorexia in the past may have caused some doctors to not accurately recognize anorexia because the girl or woman was still having a period.

Perfectionism Recovery Commandments for Eating Disorder & Anorexia Sufferers

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:46:28 +1000

Perfectionism Recovery Commandments for Eating Disorder & Anorexia Sufferers:

Consider implementing the Perfectionist Recovery Commandments into your plan of eating disorder recovery.

I. Thou shall be real.

II. Thou shall accept oneself.

III. Thou shall not try to be someone else.

IV. Thou shall not judge oneself harshly.

V. Thou shall respect oneself.

VI. Thou shall treat oneself with dignity.

VII. Thou shall not worry about what others think of oneself.

VIII. Thou shall be gentle and compassionate with oneself.

IX. Thou shall offer oneself unconditional love.

X. Thou shall not compare oneself with another’s strengths, attributes or performance

Source : eatingdisorderhope.com

TAASA - Break The Box (by TAASAspeakupspeakout) Challenge Gender...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:34:05 +1000

TAASA - Break The Box (by TAASAspeakupspeakout)

Challenge Gender Stereo types!

THE END OF DIETS (by lacigreen)

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:23:07 +1000

THE END OF DIETS (by lacigreen)