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Meet, Nashina! 👋🏼 Nashina is one of our fearless, kind and beautiful Free To Be facilitators. The words surrounding Nashina are just ✨a few✨of the magnificant qualities about herself. At Free To Be, we're all about @jameelajamilofficial and her @i_weigh campaign, a social movement to highlight individual attributes not related to appearance. Remember, you are SO much more than your outward appearance. We 👏🏼👏🏼 this campaign and all participating!
There are so many reasons to be grateful for who you are and all of the unique, amazing qualities that embody YOU! 🙌🏼✨ When you compliment a friend, coworker or loved one, do you find yourself immediately gravitating toward appearance-based compliments? Don't sweat it, we know the feeling. 😳 And that's okay! We've been trained to primarily focus on what we see in the mirror - but there is SO much more to us than our clothing, hair, skin...it's what we share with the world each day that matters. Here are a few more compliments not related to appearance to keep in your pocket when you need it most. 😉
🚨 Sound the alarm, we changed the date! 🚨 We are very excited to joining forces with @ivivva_w4th again for a transformative evening of conversation (and movement and fun, if you are a tween)! Will you be joining us? We are hosting TWO workshops: One for parents and one for daughters. 🙌🏼 Parent/Caregivers: ""I feel fat"" - ""I'm so ugly"" - ""I'm such a loser,"" Such statements made by our kids makes our skin recoil as parents. Yet underlying body image insecurities are feelings of inadequacy, anger, shame, sadness etc. that we can help our kids build awareness and capacity with. ✨✨✨ It pains or even scares us to see our kids hurt because we love them and we don’t want them to hurt AND/OR their pain causes us to feel pain which is uncomfortable AND/OR we just don't know what to say or how to help. Join @renaeregehr, founder of Free To Be and Registered Clinical Counsellor and explore current body image issues that youth are facing and learn: 1️⃣How to effectively address the deeper issues so your kid(s) feels heard and understood. 2️⃣How to get at the root(s) of the problem to understand and meet the underlying body image need. and 3️⃣ How to awareness and build resilience in your kids so they don’t need to turn to unhealthy coping strategies. ✨✨✨ Yoga & Media Literacy Workshop For Tween Girls This evening we will stretching our minds, bodies and souls. Grow your confidence and inspire others to do the same as you meet new friends, learn about media manipulation and media messages, and develop tools to become your best possible self! Limited tickets available. See the link in bio for all details. 👏🏼
Fact: Our bodies take up space. 🙌🏼 But we know it's not always easy to feel comfortable with our body's shape and size ALL the time. We're loving this quote by @brenna_matthews because guess what? You deserve to take up space. You’re worthy of having wants and needs. You're not invisible, and you weren't meant to be - we see you, and we're sending you a high-five! 👋🏼✨ Be who you are, because taking up space is a beautiful thing. 💕
An excerpt from @ladydubbs with @darling that speaks to us. 💛 True beauty shines outward from your heart. Tag a friend below who could use this reminder. ✨👇🏼
Statistics that make us 😨😱 Wanting to feel beautiful is a healthy and normal innate human desire. But sometimes the messages we receive from a young age, to especially young girls, reinforce that striving to be beautiful IS the most important thing a girl can aspire to. 🙅🏻‍♀️🙅🏼‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏾‍♀️ But there is so much more that we can do. 💪🏼✨ Numbers like these should make your jaw drop. That's why at Free To Be, we're working our 🍑’s off to shed light on these statistics. The more awareness we bring to where we are right now, the more we can shape the future. Join us in educating our youth to better understand the unrealistic portrayal of beauty AND the deeply powerful underlying messages in the media. 🙌🏼 If this resonates with you, let's chat!📱Click the #linkinbio to learn more about the Free To Be mission and join us at our next training November 9th.
Have you ever caught yourself feeling like you "have to" do something? Or feeling like you "should" act or look a certain way? Well, we love this quote by @justinbaldoni because it made us stop and think. 🧐 Why are we blindy following unwritten rules that society has created for us? We challenge each of us to be a better version, than who we were yesterday. 🙌🏼 To be a better friend. To exhibit kindness to all. Why change who you are to fit a mold of what we see on social media, on film, or in music? Remember, you are enough, and you deserve to be who you to the fullest. ✨✨
We are very excited to joining forces with @ivivva_w4th again for a transformative evening of conversation (and movement and fun, if you are a tween)! .✨ We are hosting 2 workshops: Talk 1️⃣ for Parent/Caregivers: 👇 "I feel fat" - "I'm so ugly" - "I'm such a loser," Such statements made by our kids makes our skin recoil as parents. Yet underlying body image insecurities are feelings of inadequacy, anger, shame, sadness etc. that we can help our kids build awareness and capacity with. ✔️ It pains or even scares us to see our kids hurt because we love them and we don’t want them to hurt AND/OR their pain causes us to feel pain which is uncomfortable AND/OR we just don't know what to say or how to help. .🙁🤐 Join @renaeregehr founder of Free To Be and Registered Clinical Counsellor and explore current body image issues that youth are facing and learn: #1 How to effectively address the deeper issues so your kid(s) feels heard and understood.👌 #2 How to get at the root(s) of the problem to understand and meet the underlying body image need.🤗 and #3 How to awareness and build resilience in your kids so they don’t need to turn to unhealthy coping strategies. 🙌 . Workshop 2️⃣: At the same time as the parent talk we will be running a fun yoga and media literacy workshop for tween girls! ✨ Limited tickets available! See the link in bio for all details.