Body Image

Beverly is in Hawaii, helping her uncle at his dive shop, learning how to dive and trying to lose weight and get a boyfriend. When Garth, an accomplished diver, shows an interest in her, Beverly is ecstatic, until it turns out Garth is only interested in one thing. Struggling with failing strength from her self-imposed starvation diet, Beverly finds herself in deep trouble when she has to fight Garth off underwater.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across the world of “thinspiration” websites, where young people encourage each other in their mission to lose weight, she quickly becomes addicted. Finally, she has found a place where she is understood and where she can belong.

"Tout a changé si vite. Trop vite. Je n'ai pas le temps de m'adapter à une situation qu'il faut déjà franchir le palier suivant. Je suis terrifiée à l'idée qu'un jour, je ne réussisse plus à grimper." Enflammer les foules, Alana en rêve depuis son plus jeune âge. Son frère, Alexz, l'y prépare d'ailleurs avec acharnement. Mais le jour où le célèbre Nate Vance leur propose de quitter Moscou pour embarquer sur sa tournée anglaise, c'est une descente aux enfers qui s'amorce.

To coincide with the release of her groundbreaking new documentary Embrace Kids, leading body image activist and powerhouse change-maker Taryn Brumfitt has collaborated with leading body image expert Dr Zali Yager on one of the most important health issues of our times—helping our children and teens feel comfortable about, and confident in, their bodies. With chapters on how to role-model body confidence, appreciate your own body and create a positive home environment, Embrace Kids is full of evidence-based suggestions and supportive, practical advice.

In This Is Body Grief, disability advocate and recovery expert Jane Mattingly lays out a groundbreaking approach to mourning and accepting one’s ever-changing body. Like all grief, she says, Body Grief cannot be overcome but felt in all its complexity. Dismantling the narrative that your body is “against you,” she presents new ways to cope with your body's fluctuating abilities with self-compassion and grace. Along the way, she walks you through the seven stages of Body Grief, offering wisdom for how to make space for each difficult emotion as it arises.

For too long, parents have been given an impossible task: keep your kid from getting too fat, while making sure they love their body. In this practical and essential book, body-confidence parenting coach Emma Wright uses current research to put an end to fights at the dinner table, and shows how you can teach your child or teen to step away from expectations that leave them anxious about food. Emma addresses the root causes of society's current obsession with healthy food and explores overlooked factors that impact on our kids' self-image.

Invincible not Invisible is a groundbreaking health, fitness and lifestyle guide written by esteemed author Fiona Lambert. As a fitness enthusiast and successful businesswomen Fiona is eager to spread the message that it is never too late to get into the best shape of your life. Drawing on her own experiences and years of research, she provides practical insights, effective strategies, and actionable tips for anyone looking to achieve their best shape and reclaim their vitality, irrespective of age.

Have you tried everything and can't lose weight? Find diet or exercise alone don't work? Hold a distorted body image? Tap into your inherent power to facilitate positive changes and alter the way you think, feel, and look! Use creative visualization to help you build your confidence and reshape your body. Body Transformation Inside-Out uses the correlation between mind, body, and emotions to promote health, vitality, and serenity.

Ever since cancer invaded his adoptive mother’s life, Brett feels like he’s losing everything, most of all control. To cope, Brett fuels all of his anxieties into epic fantasies, including his intergalactic Kid Condor comic book series, which features food constellations and characters not unlike those in his own life. But lately Brett’s grip on reality has started to lose its hold. The fictions he’s been telling himself—about his unattractive body, the feeling that he’s a burden to his best friend, that he’s too messed up to be loved—have consumed him completely.

Planking for Pizza started with an epiphany. Jessica Pack decided to “start where she was” and share her true self as the first step in a journey to self-acceptance and rejection of low self-esteem. To her great surprise, her Instagram selfie posts and blog made her a social media star with followers praising her revelatory approach to becoming whole by accepting every part of herself.

Everyone has a panza—it can be big and round, soft and small, or somewhere in between. But a young boy’s favorite panza of all is Mamá’s. Her panza is capable of remarkable things, and she loves it as an important part of herself. Her panza was also his first home. Even before he was born, it cradled and held him. When he’s feeling shy and needs a place to hide or when he wants somewhere to rest during a bedtime story, Mamá’s panza is always there.

Maja er vild med lækre Tristan. Og han er vild med hende. Eller det bliver han, når han opdager, at hun er til. Da han inviterer til fest, er Maja klar til sit livs scoring. Hun skal bare lige finde det helt rigtige at have på. Men det er ikke så nemt. For Eva kan spise alt, mens Maja buler ud, blot hun ser på en pose Piratos. Og Katrine, der er slank og stanglækker, er sund på den onde og totalt uopnåelige måde. Øv.

The book looks at how the body positivity movement can be used to help those struggling with these issues. Then it explores the cultural, familial, social, and emotional impacts upon a person’s relationship to food. It explains in depth how to monitor your triggers for overeating or unhealthy behaviors, and proposes new rewards that you can try when establishing healthy habits in your life. It then discusses how a person can begin to reinforce new healthy habits by developing a healthy body mindset.

In this book, we’ll be exploring the world of body dysmorphia—understanding what it is, how one can identify it, and how to deal with symptoms. It’s an incredibly complex issue that affects millions of people worldwide—both men and women—regardless of age, race, or creed.

Kamille lever et ret normalt liv som ung voksen, med veninder, fester, kæreste, tanker om fremtiden ... men bag facaden synker hun langsomt til bunds i sit liv på grund af spiseforstyrrelsen BED: Hun spiser. Meget. Alt for meget. Findes der en vej ud af BED, så Kamille kan komme videre med sit liv? En velskrevet, troværdig og ægte god læseoplevelse, også for andre end dem, der selv har lidt/lider af BED eller kender nogen, der har.

We girls know what it's like to feel inadequate. Despite our best efforts, we constantly compare ourselves to the models in magazines, the selfies we see on Instagram, and even our closest friends.

Sixteen-year-old Mackenzie, on a mission to be skinny, starts a journal to track her eating and chronicle her whirlwind life. It’s a temporary fix, and she soon finds herself sucked back into a familiar pattern of self-destruction.

My sophomore year changed everything. I dropped 40 pounds after a stint in fat camp. Prior to losing weight, most of my time was spent comparing myself to my twin sister and trying to hide my cankles. But losing weight made all things seem possible. Now I'm popular, vying for the hottest guy in school and competing for a prom queen nomination. Finally, I'm getting noticed, and it's all because I dropped the pounds.

Julia zaprasza całą klasę na swoje przyjęcie urodzinowe. Spotkają się na basenie. Później zjedzą pizzę. Róża pyta, czy będzie coś innego niż pizza, bo ona nie je śmieciowego jedzenia. Klara nie rozumie. Róża uwielbia pizzę. I jest taka szczupła. A jeśli szczupła Róża myśli, że jest gruba, to może Klara też jest?

Zoe and Hank (short for Hannah) have been inseparable since they met in elementary school. The leader of the pack, Zoe is effortlessly popular while Hank hides comfortably in her shadow. But when Zoe's parents unexpectedly divorce, Zoe's perfect facade starts cracking little by little. Sinking under the weight of her broken family, Zoe develops an eating disorder. Now she must rely on Hank for help.