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Project Body Love

Author : Jessie Harrold

Publisher :

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 49,12 MB

Release : 2019-01-22

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 9781999544409

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Loving your body is hard to do. Project Body Love is the story of my quest to find acceptance, respect, and maybe even love for my body after spending a lifetime counting calories and drops of sweat. What followed was a two-year series of experiments that had me mining the depths of my past, dismantling the effects of Diet Culture on my self-worth, taking up bellydancing, posing for nude photographs, and other daring feats of self-exploration. Far from being a shiny tale of self-actualization, Project Body Love explores the complexity of being a fat person in a thin-obsessed world, and concludes with an entirely new perspective on the elusive body love - one that was surprising, even to me. This is my story, and so much of it is also the story of millions of other women. And so. I wrote this for every woman who has spent too much time trying to make herself small. I wrote it for every woman who wants to love her body, but can't figure out how. I wrote this for a world that needs its women committed to revolution and sovereignty and joy, not eating more salad.



The Honest Body Project

Author : Natalie McCain

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 447 pages

File Size : 14,23 MB

Release : 2017-08-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1510720944

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Only 4 percent of women around the world consider themselves to be beautiful, according to research done by Dove, and twenty million women suffer from significant eating disorders at some point in their life—The Honest Body Project was created to combat this tragic problem of poor body image in our society. Founded by photographer Natalie McCain, this project is opening the eyes of women around the world and helping them to see the beauty both outside and inside of themselves. It is a collection of black and white portraits and stories, raw and untouched, from hundreds of women who have bared their hearts and souls to be a part of the project. Natalie tastefully photographs the women in their underwear, showing off their natural shapes and “imperfections.” There is no editing done after the fact, and the natural beauty of these women—from all backgrounds and walks of life—shines through the lens. Together, they create a beautiful, honest picture of both motherhood and what it means to be a woman. Topics include body image issues, breast cancer, depression (postpartum and otherwise), anxiety, bottle feeding versus breast feeding, aging, and more. The Honest Body Project is a breath of fresh air, breaking down walls and helping women learn that they are not alone in their hardships. It wants to help women everywhere contribute to a better world, and to learn to love themselves and appreciate their bodies for what they are: perfectly imperfect. It is time to celebrate the true form of women.



Love Your Body

Author : Jessica Sanders

Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Page : 43 pages

File Size : 37,31 MB

Release : 2020-03-03

Category : Body image in adolescence

ISBN : 0711252408

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What if every young girl loved her body? Love Your Body encourages you to admire and celebrate your body for all the amazing things it can do (like laugh, cry, hug, and feel) and to help you see that you are so much more than your body. Bodies come in all different forms and abilities. All these bodies are different and all these bodies are good bodies. There is no size, ability, or color that is perfect. What makes you different makes you, you--and you are amazing! Love Your Body introduces the language of self-love and self-care to help build resilience, while representing and celebrating diverse bodies, encouraging you to appreciate your uniqueness. This book was written for every girl, regardless of how you view your body. All girls deserve to be equipped with the tools to navigate an image-obsessed world. Freedom is loving your body with all its "imperfections" and being the perfectly imperfect you!



Body Kindness

Author : Rebecca Scritchfield

Publisher : Workman Publishing Company

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 25,64 MB

Release : 2016-12-27

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 0761189750

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Create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you’re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did? This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself—and that includes your mind as well as your body. Body Kindness is based on four principles. WHAT YOU DO: the choices you make about food, exercise, sleep, and more HOW YOU FEEL: befriending your emotions and standing up to the unhelpful voice in your head WHO YOU ARE: goal-setting based on your personal values WHERE YOU BELONG: body-loving support from people and communities that help you create a meaningful life With mind and body exercises to keep your energy spiraling up and prompts to help you identify what YOU really want and care about, Body Kindness helps you let go of things you can't control and embrace the things you can by finding the workable, daily steps that fit you best. It's the anti-diet book that leads to a more joyful and meaningful life.



The Bodies of Mothers

Author : Jade Beall

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 40,3 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)

ISBN : 9780989983860

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A Beautiful Body Project: The Bodies of Mothers First in a series of books with a strong media platform of truthful photographs and stories to celebrate the irreplaceable beauty of women and the body positive movement happening all over the world. A Beautiful Body Project is an upcoming series of book volumes and an online media platform dedicated to women and body image, celebrated through the sharing stories about motherhood, aging, cancer, stillbirths, miscarriages, weigh-gain, weight-loss, dysmorphia, and beyond. Founder Jade Beall has been a photographer, a massage therapist, and an inspiring dance teacher for women for over a decade. Her work is touching thousands of lives around the world. This book, along with all subsequent volumes, will feature my signature non-digitally-augmented & no-air-brushing images of women, just as they are. This is the heart of the project, to reshape images of women in mass media, to celebrate us as us, nothing more, nothing less. The Beautiful Body Pledge - which in turn sums up the purpose of the book series - is as follows: I want to join the movement and agree to love my body more and more each day, to use kind words towards myself and towards other women, to be a role-model for future generations of mothers, and to choose to be empowered knowing that I am not alone, and that by coming together, we can reshape body image in mass-media, build self-esteem, and explore vulnerability as a collective. Jade Beall is a world-renowned Photographer specializing in truthful images of women to inspire feeling irreplaceably beautiful as a counter-balance to the airbrushed photo-shopped imagery that dominates mainstream media. Her recent work A Beautiful Body Project has touched 100,000's of women's lives and garnered global attention from media outlets including the BBC, The Huffington Post & beyond. Jade's book series and media platform feature untouched photos of women alongside their stories of their journeys to build self-esteem in a world that thrives off women feeling insecure. Jade's dream is to inspire future generations of women to be free from the unnecessary self-suffering and embrace their beauty just as they are.



Project Body

Author : John Farndon

Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 34,7 MB

Release : 2019-07-15

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1538392259

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The more people learn about their hardworking heart, breathtaking lungs, and brilliant brain, the more they marvel at the amazing machine that's called the human body. This beautiful book, teeming with astonishing information and eye-catching activities, takes young biologists on a journey into the human body. Each thought-provoking project is presented with easy-to-follow instructions, while accompanying facts and imaginative graphics allow readers to truly engage with the important subject material.



Letting Go of Leo

Author : Simi Botic

Publisher : Balboa Press

Page : 154 pages

File Size : 45,13 MB

Release : 2017-12-14

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1504393287

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People think you have it all together. What these people don’t understand is how exhausting it feels to make it look that way. The pressure to keep it all going is intense. You feel unfulfilled and don’t believe you measure up to others. You’re constantly searching for the secret to experience confidence in your own skin. Despite your have-it-all-together life, you can’t figure out how to accept or perfect yourself. You’ve tried diets, intense exercise, shopping, and stuffing brownies in your face. Yet nothing fills the hole deep inside, and you worry, Will I ever be enough? You’ve come to the right place. In Letting Go of Leo, Simi Botic gets personal about what she’s experienced and learned. She shares stories about eating a jar of peanut butter without choking to death. Stories about her thighs rubbing together. Stories of living a fantasy where she would marry Leo DiCaprio and win an Oscar. Stories of realizing that real life can be better than any fantasy, that she could show up for the good stuff and the hard stuff and, most importantly, for herself. Simi used to freak out about food, her body, and not being perfect enough. She freaks out a lot less now. In Letting Go of Leo, she shares how she broke up with perfection—and how you can too.



Food, Body, & Love

Author : Kari Anderson

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 26,59 MB

Release : 2021-07-20

Category :

ISBN : 9781737720409

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Emotions run high when it comes to food and body shape but, finally, you have a resource to successfully fight all of that. food, body & love can help you end your exhaustive challenges with food and body image. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Kari Anderson tells her personal story of using food reliance as a way to fill social, emotional, and spiritual gaps. With refreshing honesty and expertise, she explains in simple understandable terms the complex biological and psychological concepts at the root of eating issues. Dr. Kari unfolds scientific evidence revealing a "love code" to unlock your unhealthy attachment to food. She provides user-friendly tips and strategies to take you from self-loathing to self-acceptance, from struggle to peace. You will learn:?How childhood trauma influences longstanding eating behaviors?What polyvagal theory is, and how it can transform your life?How to harness your nervous system to reduce stress eating ?Techniques for cultivating mindfulness in your approach to food and life?Simple steps for creating safety and peace through a relationship with God?To love and accept yourself at every size and stage of your journey With Dr. Kari's book in hand, you have a compassionate counselor, kindred spirit, and mentor immediately accessible to champion your crusade to heal your relationship with food and form, forevermore.



The Body Project Book

Author : Katy Daixon Wimer

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 44,9 MB

Release : 2014-12-16

Category :

ISBN : 9780368308239

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Brave women pose with affirmations written on their least favorite parts of their bodies in honor of body acceptance and self-love. See their moving portraits, photographed by katy daixon photography, and read their powerful stories.



The Body Project

Author : Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 29,9 MB

Release : 2010-06-09

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0307755746

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The award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project. "Fascinating ... riveting ... Women and girls should read this fine book together." —The New York Times Book Review A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present. Tracing girls' attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from the Victorian concern with character to our modern focus on outward appearance—in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy. Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project.