positive body image

beauty is a choice you make about yourself, and not what anyone else can tell you

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As a teenage girl, you are twelve times more likely to die from an eating disorder than any other illness. This is not okay. We need to get more and more people to truly feel the love of themselves so that they are not worried about the appearance of their bodies.

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Iskra Lawrence talks about this idea of a gratitude list. This list is just things that you love about yourself and your surroundings

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https://t.co/9itr37jSlQ

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if we are insecure we are a motivated consumer. If we have any doubts about the way that we look, then we will be moved to spending a ton of money to "fix" that. This is why companies try to make you feel this way, but this is terrible for your mental health.

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we have been conditioned to believe that our success and our happiness is highly dependent on our attractiveness.

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with the rise of social media we literally have a weapon of mass destruction to our self esteem 24/7. But social media is a curated, filtered, and often airbrushed image of what is really happening in life.

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the most important relationship we have in our lives is the one we have with ourselves and we are not taught about it

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"weather you think you are a perfect ten or a troll, if you are constantly thinking of your appearance you are falling into this trap called self objectification" (Kite)

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We need to strive to make sure that women are seen as more than bodies to view

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Lindsey Kite said "women are not only suffering because of the unattainable ways that beauty is being defined, they are suffering because they are being defined by beauty. They are bodies first and women second." https://t.co/gpb54WFAXF

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Graham says "only 2 percent of women find themselves beautiful" This needs to be changed because true beauty comes from within and that validation and self worth must come from within. This is not something that someone else can tell you.

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Ashley Graham has a very amazing story about being a "plus size" model but she likes to think of it as "my size" https://t.co/OF5mxip8Wi

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Graham said "I was never going to be perfect enough for an industry that defines perfection from the outside in." Nobody can be perfect for that because what makes someone beautiful is not what is on the outside.

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Bustle says "Based on a study the more that people see larger bodies, the more they are drawn to these larger bodies." The more we are able to diversify what people are seeing in today's world, the more accepting we can make the world.

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Body acceptance can be the key to living a healthier lifestyle. https://t.co/naAcPTfpNH

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One person who does a great job of illustrating this idea of getting over this war on fat is Lillian Bustle in her ted talk https://t.co/NevoAHsu0E

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Beauty is something that you get to decide for yourself. You get to decide for yourself that you are gorgeous, you get to decide that you are powerful, you get to decide that you are amazing, and you get to decide that you are worth looking at.