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👆🏿👆🏾👆🏽👆 As @bodyimagemovement Taryn Brumfit says, “Your body is not an ornament but the vehicle to your dreams.” ✅You DON’T have a problem area ✅You CAN take a picture from every angle ✅ Cellulite and wrinkles are normal ✅ Aging is a privilege and should NOT be seen as a problem. Don’t get stuck in the thinking traps that so much of mainstream and social media sell us. ✨You get one life to live, live it! ✨ We are tagging a few accounts who we think will lift you up and help you get “unstuck” if you find yourself trapped. Give us a 👊 if you agree!
#regram @inspiredbyher_conference ▫️▫️▫️ “The news is out- INSPIRED BY HER SOLD OUT IN 6 DAYS ❤️ Our team is overwhelmed with the amount of love and support received since starting this movement. Our waitlist is reaching 40 people and climbing. This proves to the organisation, that education and mentorship surrounding self-confidence, media literacy and positive body image is not only needed but a necessity. To all the parents, young girls and inspiring women on our team, thank YOU for helping make our mission possible!” ▫️▫️▫️ We are excited to be joining @beayoutiful_org for a ✨FREE✨self-esteem and media literacy conference for young girls ages 10-13, is coming to the city on January 6, 2019! What a way to kick off the new year. Comment below if you’ll be joining us! 🙌🏼
"So I am currently the heaviest I have ever been. And guess what..that's ok. Bodies change and grow and stretch and shrink and curve and move. I am also the most content I've ever been. I am a good mom and a good wife. I am more sure of who I am. I am safe and secure in my relationships. I am happy and healthy. ✨✨✨✨✨ This is the first year I have worn a bathing suit without shorts or a cover up of some sort. I am no longer going to sit on the shore line and watch my kids play, passively watching my life go by and worring about what I look like or wondering if other people think I am fat or notice my cellulite. Nope I am jumping in and playing with my kids. I am living!!!” 📷 @suvannahslittlebrood 😘 Regram @nettlestale
According to plastic surgeons, patients are no longer bringing in photos of celebrities, they are bringing in pictures of their selfies edited to look like perfect versions of themselves. 🤭😳 Wanting to feel beautiful is a normal innate human desire. But the messages we receive from a young age reinforce that striving to beautiful is the most important thing one can aspire to be. ❌ There is SO much more that we can do. Let's give young girls and boys the tools to empower themselves and their generation to be the BEST they can be. 🙌🏼 If this resonates with you, we encourage you to speak up and join in! Click the #linkinbio to learn more about the Free To Be mission and how you can make a difference.
🙌 🙌🏼🙌🏾🙌🏿 This is what we have been preaching forever now. Thank you @jameelajamilofficial for writing this piece in @bbc about airbrushing (link in bio to read the article). ✨ We are erasing body types and what it means to be a normal person with wrinkles, stray hairs, crooked teeth, humps on noses, cellulite, moles, perfected abs.... With all the airbrushing, filters, and media manipulation that is going on, and these messages are being received younger and younger. ▫️ The question everyone needs to ask themselves when they feel inadequate is, “Is someone profiting off my feeling of self loathing, inadequacy, or shame?” ▫️ If the answer is “Yes” then the first step is recognizing you have been trapped in a MYTH - a seductive one that intricately links an attractive appearance with deeper human desires of wanting to matter, be loved, have opportunities, be successful. ▫️ Next, realize you CAN write a new narrative, just as you are! And we have more resources on our website (under the “Resource” tab) about help you start moving to a place of acceptance and joy for you are and ALL the amazing things your body can do! 🙌 What are your thoughts? 👇🏾👇👇🏼
Meet Kate! 👋🏼 Kate is our social and public relations guru. Surrounding her are some of the qualities she's chosen that best represent who she is on the INSIDE. Our Free To Be team loves participating in Jameela Jamil's @i_weigh campaign because you know what? What defines us is so much more than what can be gathered by an outward glance. 🙌🏼✨
What you focus on becomes your reality. We experience life within and through our bodies; you feel the warm embrace of arms around you, 🤗 you can feel the power in your legs as you climb a mountain 🏔 you feel breath in your ear as someone whispers something. Hear us to say that our bodies are amazing. Furthermore, we believe wanting to look and feel attractive is perfectly normal! 😅 However, things become problematic when we start to believe our value, self-worth, or confidence *comes* from our bodies/appearance [cue the messages we receive from the vast majority of media around us]. Our appearance is ONE aspect of who we are, and if we want to cultivate ourselves/others to become holistic people we need to focus on ALL the aspects of who we are. ✨🙌🏼 If all we are focusing on is appearance, then we are going subconsciously teach others and reinforce the idea to ourselves that appearances are the most important thing. So here’s an idea: For every 1 appearance related compliment you give, try to find 10 things you can compliment and internal characteristics you can ultimately cultivate in someone. Are you up for the challenge?