Posted in Beauty Industry, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Parents, Power of Words on Nov 11th, 2009 4 Comments »
The following YouTube clip was brought to my attention by the divine Noelle Graham (a long term Enlighten supporter and a passionate advocate for young women suffering from eating disorders).
Unfortunately, I did not find it shocking for it reflects what I see in schools right across the country. I did, however, find it deeply sad. It left me [...]
Posted in Advertising, Beauty Industry, Body Image, Enlighten Education, Fashion Industry, Magazines, Media, Power of Words, Schools, Sexualisation of children, Sport on Nov 3rd, 2009 7 Comments »
The issue of negative body image has officially crossed over into the mainstream public debate. We now have a proposed National Strategy on Body Image, put together by an advisory group appointed by the federal government.
Kate Ellis, the Minister for Youth, put together the group, which was chaired by Mia Freedman, former editor of Cosmopolitan, [...]
Posted in Body Image, Magazines, Media, Parents, Power of Words on Oct 27th, 2009 4 Comments »
The article below originally appeared in Notebook Magazine, November 2009. It has has been reproduced here with their permission. Visit Notebook magazine – www.notebookmagazine.com
A PDF version of this feature article is also available to download / share here: dani
In the minds of many parents, a daughter’s teenage years loom like a trial by fire. Cracking the [...]
Posted in Body Image, Fashion Industry, Power of Words on Oct 21st, 2009 9 Comments »
This is the Fashionista Generation. Chalk it up to Gossip Girl or Next Top Model or all those banks who handed out credit cards like they were candy — whatever the reasons, designer labels have become a part of our culture. We use them to fit in, to stand out, to create a glow of [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Friendship, Power of Words, Resources, Schools on Oct 9th, 2009 5 Comments »
Does my bum look big in this?
I HATE MY THIGHS.
You look great–did you lose weight?
Fat talk. Many of us do it every day as we play the “compare and despair” game, trying to live up to an impossible stick-thin ideal of what we should look like and what it means to be feminine. [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Feminism, Magazines, Media, Parents, Power of Words, Resources, Sexualisation of children on Sep 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
This week has been filled with powerful conversations around teen girls and my book, The Butterfly Effect. I thought I would share three of the more interesting interviews with you.
Sunrise – Raising Teen Girls – 4/9/09: click on the image below to view the segment or go directly to the URL: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=15377569
Podcast – Breakfast radio with [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Power of Words on Jul 23rd, 2009 9 Comments »
Warning – this special blog post may be a trigger for some people.
For those of us who have never had an eating disorder it can be hard to understand the grip that diseases such as anorexia and bulimia have on young women’s minds. This week I would like to share a piece of writing [...]
Posted in Advertising, Body Image, Fashion Industry, Media, Parents, Power of Words, Sexualisation of children on May 13th, 2009 6 Comments »
Recently I took my 10-year-old daughter, Teyah, on a trip to a shopping centre. Mother’s Day was coming up, and I needed to buy a gift for my mother and a new outfit for Teyah to wear out for our family lunch.
Rather than enjoying this experience, I found myself increasingly frustrated, and in fact furious, [...]
Posted in Body Image, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Plastic Surgery on May 6th, 2009 4 Comments »
I was recently invited onto Channel 7’s The Morning Show to discuss an “Extreme Makeover” story in Girlfriend magazine’s June 2009 issue. Using before and after shots of a teen girl, they show readers just how much work goes into producing the perfect images on magazine covers: the hours of hair and makeup, clever lighting [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Parents, Power of Words, Resources on Apr 26th, 2009 5 Comments »
This month, alarming research was published showing that eating disorders now plague very young children. The study’s findings included a child only 5 years of age who was hospitalised with Early Onset Eating Disorder (EOED).
It was Dr Sloane Madden from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, who raised the alarm: “What we are seeing [...]
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