Posted in Body image, Food for Thought, tagged Body image, Delta Delta Delta, Eating disorders, fat talk, Tri-Delts on 28 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
Congrats to Delta Delta Delta Sorority for creating this powerful video and being a part of the movement to help women in the United States address negative body image.
10 million women are suffering from eating disorders – more than four times the number suffering from breast cancer.
And 81% of 10-year-olds are afraid of being fat.
Stop [...]
Posted in Body image, Christian life, Christianity, Food for Thought, In His image, Responding to God, tagged advertising, beauty, Body image, faith, ministry, self-esteem, women's health on 9 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Secret: I have a connection for great websites! My (very cool) Aunt surfs around out there and gives me regular updates on sites that are speaking up with real, true, meaningful messages. Here are some of her latest finds:
Real Beauty Is… bold, courageous, perfectly imperfect
~Love the link to www.feelyourboobies.com (it’s a breast cancer awareness site!)
Love [...]
Posted in Body image, Eating disorders, Food for Thought, tagged Eating disorders, Fashion Week, models on 11 September 2008 | 5 Comments »
According to this report from the AP, models at New York’s Fashion Week were “up to” sizes 2 and 4 instead of the usual size 0…this is somehow considered an improvement.
Did you know that in 2006 at least two models died from complications linked to eating disorders?
Posted in Body image, Christian life, Christianity, Food for Thought, In His image, Responding to God, tagged balance, beauty, culture, eating, freedom, God, identity, self image, True Campaign on 11 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got to sit down to lunch today with Travis Stewart of the True Campaign. What an incredible privilege! I am such a fan of what they are doing with their young organization, and it was just awesome to listen to Travis talk about some of the True Campaign’s goals and plans. I hope to [...]
Posted in Body image, Food for Thought, In His image, tagged anorexia, Body image, bulimia, Eating disorders, ED, radiance on 22 August 2008 | 3 Comments »
I received 2 great blog recommendations recently:
Create Radiance — “Empowering people to create radiant lives from the inside out” — lots of great thoughts related to positive body image and learning (or re-learning) to love yourself for the beautiful creature you are.
Eating Disorders Blogs — “Supporting recovery from bulimia, anorexia, and related issues” — a [...]
Posted in Christian life, Christianity, Food for Thought, tagged Catholic Church, choice, Fabian Bruskewitz, Holy See, pro-choice, public policy, reproductive choice, United Nations on 26 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to readers Kathy and Beth for their thoughtful comments on my recent post regarding Christianity and the issue of reproductive choice. I value them both so much because they speak from lives influenced by the Catholic Church.
I want to refer any interested readers to the website for Catholics For Choice. The President of this [...]
Posted in Christian life, Christianity, Food for Thought, Responding to God, tagged Abortion, adoption, pro-choice on 16 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Further thoughts: 6/15/08
In thinking more about this post, I have been convicted by the Holy Spirit to clarify a couple of things. I want it to be very clear that I do not believe that there is “more than one truth” out there in terms of views on abortion. I realize that the statement, “You have your [...]
Posted in Body image, Food for Thought, tagged Body image, Food for Thought on 10 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
On April 22, 2008 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill issued the following news release:
Three Out of Four American Women Have Disordered Eating
Sixty-five percent of American women between the ages of 25 and 45 report having disordered eating behaviors, according to the results of a new survey by SELF Magazine in partnership with [...]
Posted in Body image, Christian life, Christianity, Food for Thought, Responding to God, tagged Body image, Christian life, Christianity, Food for Thought, Responding to God on 12 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I encourage my readers to visit the True Campaign website created by Constance Rhodes of Finding Balance and Travis Stewart of Remuda Ranch. Make comments!
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