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...and what a freeing place this is. But sometimes this can be a hard place to get too, especially as a 11 or 12 year old. To arm your kids or students with tools to become confident and thriving teens and adults (understanding media messaging, knowing about pressures that impact appearances, becoming aware of their strengths, etc.) become trained to run Free To Be right in your school or community! PS: If you were on our newsletter, an exclusive discount went out this morning 🙌 (which you can still receive if you sign up this week). Link in bio. #freetobe #freetobeme #teacherresources #educationiskey #positivebody Image: @iamprojectyou
Moms, YOU are so important! Research consistently shows that a mom's attitude towards herself will impact her daughter. If you are making a delicious dinner for your family, and then eat something different that is "healthier" - your daughters are learning that food is "good" or "bad" and that they should restrict themselves. If you tell your kids, "You are beautiful" but put yourself down or make comments like, "I can't go out looking like this" - your kids are learning that looking a certain way, is what is most important. I get it, it can be so hard when we have grown up believing that we need to look and be a certain way. Just like you want freedom for your daughter, we also want YOU to live with freedom! To help bring you there, we will be releasing a free, self-help guide on our newsletter first, about becoming aware of deeply engrained core-beliefs and HOW to change them. Be sure to sign up so you don't miss this helpful freebie coming soon! Image: @thisgirlcanuk #freetobe #bodyimage #selfhelp #freetobeme
Important Gratitude Post | While this post is being written after Thanksgiving, it has been applicable for the last number of weeks. My heart is seriously over flowing with gratitude. While I am incredibly thankful for my family, friends, and health, my heart is also #filledtothebrim with gratitude for your support. ✨THANK YOU to everyone who supported, shared, and donated to Free To Be during the @rawbeautytalks and @kaitlynbristowe crowd rise. Over $17 500 CAD was raised which is going to be able to send a LOT of kids through the program this year at no cost to the schools! Your support will be positively changing kids lives this year. ✨THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the @vancitybusinessbabes and @spinsociety fundraiser this weekend! Over $600 was raised from one class and we are so happy to make the program even more accessible and available to more kids. ✨Finally, THANK YOU to our kick-ass, capable, talented, funny, and engaging team (tagged) at Free To Be. I am so honoured to have previously worked with you or to be working alongside you as we spread the message of Free To Be across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver. You people are amazing. Thank you! xoxo #freetobe #freetobeme #gratitude #thanksgiving2017 #bodyimage
"Let’s be brutally honest, do you ever feel like you are failing at not comparing yourself to others? We have all had those thoughts and feelings as we open our social feed and scroll through Instagram, “Wow, she has so many new followers since yesterday [jealous feeling rears her head], but I should happy for her [uncomfortable jealous feelings are pushed down but continue to simmer]... [rest of article in link in bio]” "Comparison is the thief of joy,” but it also feels impossible to stop it. I am so thrilled to have written a piece for @Darling that explains how our brains are actually wired to compare but we can use this knowledge to break free from jealousy. Link in bio. #DarlingDaily | Illustration by @lauralucy_f #FreeToBe #FreeToBeMe #Honesty
This film is so important and I'm so grateful people like @elenarossini follow their passions and create eye-opening documentaries @illusionistsfilm 🙌 Repost 👇 ・・・ The other day I saw a post circulating on Instagram: it read "Stop 'fixing' your bodies, start fixing the world." As soon as I saw it, my first thought was: it should be adapted to say "stop fixing your photos". When I began writing my documentary The Illusionists in 2008 (!!!) the iPhone was only a year old and smartphones were still a novel concept. The idea of retouching one's photo before publishing it online would have been considered preposterous. Fast-forward to 2017 and it is now almost standard fare for people to use apps or built in phone features to "improve" one's appearance digitally. Samsung smartphones do it for you, with a built in "beauty mode" that automatically airbrushes selfies. What makes us believe that our natural look is not good enough? That we need to remove freckles and fine lines from our photos before sharing them with the ones we love? It's a subject touched upon a bit in The Illusionists, and that will get front and center treatment in its sequel #IllusionistsToo. What if we worried less about how we appear to others and we used that time and energy to improve the world around us? #freetobeme #freetobe
Perspective is literally life changing. Knowing that we are inherently valuable and are worthy of love, kindness, respect, joy, just the way we are will create the difference between a life of fulfillment or a life of always searching and never attaining. Know your worth. ✨ #freetobe #iamenough Regram: @meghanmarkle
How many of us have had a, "I don't feel good enough" moment, post Insta-scroll? As adults, we are so much more aware of how images are curated and the behind the scenes that goes into creating seemly "perfect" pictures for social media. But imagine you didn't know this. How would your life be different? What sort of expectations would you place upon yourself? We asked a group of kids to look through popular media + Instagram. A few minutes later, we asked them how it made them feel about themselves… “It just lowers your self-esteem and confidence, like you don’t think you’re good enough." his is why we need Free To Be - our research based media literacy curriculum that teaches kids they are enough, just the way they are. To see the full video of responses from kids check out the link in our profile. Video by @rootsandardor #freetobeme #freetobekids #medialiteracy #socialmedia