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Shedding for the Wedding? Shed the Lies Instead!
Every bride is reminded her wedding day is all about her. But instead of focusing on the happy relationship, major industries keep women focused on one new aspect of being a bride: becoming as small...
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Body Image and Bonding: Healing the Mother-Daughter Hurt
Far too many mother-daughter relationships are suffering under the lie that we are just bodies to be looked at, judged, and fixed. This painful belief manifests itself in moms appearing to be...
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Running from Self-Objectification
When we grow up surrounded by appearance-obsessed media’s “Weigh Less, Smile More!!” and “Perfect Your Parts, Perfect Your Life!!” headlines plastered everywhere, those messages rake in billions...
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Food, Fat and Fear: Recognizing an Eating Disorder and Recovering
In the U.S., 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from a life-threatening eating disorder during their lives. Many of those millions will never seek help and will die from the disorder. The No....
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Your Body is Powerful. Use it as an Instrument, Not an Ornament.
When you realize how many of us hate our bodies, resort to dangerous extremes like cosmetic surgery or eating disorders, and hide because of body shame, it can be so overwhelming. It is easy to feel...
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Help us #CuttheCarls Because Women are #MoreThanMeat
SEX SELLS! Right, Carl’s Jr.? The problem with everyone that uses idealized women’s bodies for their “sex sells” campaigns is that this is the least sexy thing they could possibly be selling....
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Starving and Stifled: Women are Counting Calories Instead of Changing the World
By Vanessa Garcia (Originally published Sept. 5, 2014 in the Washington Post) I was lying in bed in my New York City apartment when the world went black. My breathing had gotten sluggish, and my...
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Dying for A Tan
Lexie at her first appointment at Huntsman Cancer Institute, which happened to be on her birthday. Yuck. Two years ago, Beauty Redefined published a popular post arguing that the soaring increase in...
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Really Want to Feel Better About Your Body? Here’s Your 5-Step Game Plan
Developing positive body image — or feeling positively about your body, regardless of what it looks like at the moment — is key to health, happiness, progress and empowerment. When you’re feeling...
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Your Body is Powerful. Use it as an Instrument, Not an Ornament.
Our research points to one particularly awesome way to experience real empowerment, decrease self-consciousness, and embrace your body as your own – not as a decoration for everyone else to gawk at....
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What Will You Gain When You Lose (Your Scale)?
How often do you come up with health goals that often have a lot to do with how you look and little to do with real health and happiness? Profit-driven companies are busy bombarding us with slimy...
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9 Reasons to Ignore Every Mascara Ad Ever and Embrace Your Own Eyelashes
When we see this mascara ad (one of HUNDREDS just like it in any media directed at women), we have a few thoughts: 1. Natural extension-free, insert-free eyelashes on women are unbelievably rare in...
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Objectification, Leggings and Who’s Really to Blame
Lots of people are talking about objectification lately – especially who’s to blame, how we can prevent it and how we can protect ourselves from it. Let’s cover those points while hitting one of the...
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Lessons from Porn: Women are Objects to be Used, Abused and Dismissed
We are unapologetically anti-porn. It may be one of the most profitable and powerful industries in the world, and one that is embraced by otherwise like-minded people as an acceptable personal choice,...
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Our 3 Issues with the Swimsuit Issue: Sports, Sexualization and Side-Effects
Since the debut of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is being celebrated on the Today Show and the Tonight Show and everywhere in between, we have to counter that excitement with a reality check...
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Invisible Women Over 40: Anti-Aging and Symbolic Annihilation
If you lived on another planet and everything you knew about humans came from mainstream media, you’d be absolutely shocked to find out a couple of facts: 1) Female humans do not die or crawl into...
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Cleanse Your Mind, The Rest Will Follow: Transform Your Health With a Media Fast
Have you tried the latest health cleanse? It’s SO great. It’ll help you feel better about your body inside and out, and jump-start your healthy choices so you’ll have the motivation to be active and...
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Watching Women Want
Written by Autumn Whitefield-Madrano of The Beheld The US beat Japan 5-2 to win the Women’s World Cup Final! I’ve been watching a lot of the Women’s World Cup, with a fervor that surprises even me....
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. Let’s Misbehave!
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Many big industries want us to behave. They want us to be live “stylishly ever after,” they want our “girl power” to come from marketing that phrase on our...
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This Post is About Volleyball Shorts.
Here’s a fun game: Images from acdsports.com 1. Google Image search your local school’s men’s volleyball team. 2. Now Google Image search the women’s volleyball team. 3. Now ask yourself why the guys...
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