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 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 [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Resources, Schools on Apr 1st, 2009 4 Comments »
May 6th is No Diet Day. This event, which began in Britain in 1992 with an anti-diet campaign called Diet Breakers, is now an annual internationally celebrated day that encourages community awareness and discussion about healthy attitudes to food, and celebrates diverse body shapes.
I think it is a day well worth commemorating at your school [...]
Posted in Advertising, Beauty Industry, Body Image, Eating Disorders on Feb 5th, 2009 10 Comments »
The quote above is taken from the YouTube clip below. This documentary provides an incredibly powerful insight into adolescent, and pre-adolescent, girls and their relationship with their bodies:
Now consider the messages Australian teen girls will be receiving this week if they tune into channel 10’s The Biggest Loser. I wrote an Opinion piece for the Sydney Morning Herald on this [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Fashion Industry, Media, Women and Film on Sep 23rd, 2008 10 Comments »
Guest post by Enlighten Education NSW’s newest team member, Nikki Davis:
Looks like thin is no longer in. Skeletal is the new body ideal judging by the physiques of the female celebrities who are hot property right now.
I have to confess that I, and a number of my friends, were more than a little excited [...]
Posted in Beauty Industry, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Media, Parents, Resources, Schools on Aug 14th, 2008 4 Comments »
I stumbled upon another great American site in my cyber – world travels this week that I think is worth sharing:
www.loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org
This organisation runs a number of really interesting initiatives. One is the “Love Your Body” campaign which is launched each year with a poster competition:
The grand prize winning poster will be used as part of a [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Media, Schools on Jul 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
I am really enjoying sharing some guest posts written by various members of my amazing Enlighten team with you all! A warm “Butterfly Effect” welcome to New Zealand’s Program Manager Kelly Valder…
Guest post by Kelly Valder – newzealand@enlighteneducation.com
“Barbie Bitches” – what a term huh? For many it brings to mind platinum blonde hair extensions and lots [...]
Posted in Beauty Industry, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Parents, Resources, Schools, Sexualisation of children on Jun 23rd, 2008 9 Comments »
Thank you to everyone who has responded so favourably to the feature story 60 Minutes ran on our work and the important issue of the sexualisation of our children. For those who missed it here is their story brief:
Little Women
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Reporter: Peter Overton
Producer: Sandra Cleary
You have to wonder what on earth’s happening [...]
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