Body Image

In Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castañeda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba … and how she came to develop an unhealthy relationship with food. To help ease her mami’s nervios, Yvonne becomes a perfectionist from a young age, achieving high grades at school and mastering the piano. But as her Cuban family members openly make comments about her puberty, Yvonne enters a new phase of self-consciousness that begins her obsession with weight.

Decades of dieting have created a culture where women are afraid of food and no longer know how to eat the way nature intended. Despite evidence and research that shows dieting does not work, it remains a multimillion-dollar industry and continues to be the only solution presented when faced with the question, "How do I create a balanced relationship with food?" Becca Clegg, LPC, CEDS, proposes a radical alternative: to improve your relationship with food, you must first improve your relationship with yourself.

No more procrastinating! It's time to finally take control of your health - to ensure a fit, strong, and healthy body from now until you're blowing out 100-plus candles on your birthday cake. The Better Man Project is your personal handbook for winning life's ultimate prize: good health forever.

Part memoir and part positive body image manifesto, this is an insider's perspective on the industry and how the images the world gets to see are only part of the story. The modelling and advertising industries persistently tell women they're fat, ugly and abnormal if they conform to anything other than a western ideal of beauty. In 2002 Chelsea Bonner founded BELLA, a modelling agency focused on healthy body size and dedicated to changing our dangerously narrow perception of 'beautiful'.

Today’s middle school girls have it rough. In those few short years, girls go through an incredible number of biological and emotional changes, making it the most formative - and risky - time in their lives. Groups form and turn on each other, childhood friends can reveal trusted secrets just by sending a text message or updating a Facebook status, and deciding where to sit in the cafeteria can be a daily struggle. As any tween will tell you, life for a middle school girl can be summed up in one word: drama.

In this book, parents, teachers, and teens will learn strategies to master body acceptance. You will learn that it is not okay to comment on anyone's body, either negatively or positively. This way we can remove the judgmental attitudes the media encourages.

God has created each one of us with unique abilities, unique talents and a unique personality. As women we are influencers and God has given us that role and our beauty to share with others. Yet, so often we settle for a counterfeit. The enemy has counterfeited our idea of beauty, convincing us to share our beauty with the world in a distorted way. Today, that often means that we see our beauty as what we look like on the outside.

Following the success of Raising Girls Who Like Themselves, Kasey Edwards and Dr Christopher Scanlon offers a much-requested book about raising boys. With their trademark warmth, wit and positive outlook, Kasey Edwards and Dr Christopher Scanlon will help you build a strong foundation for your boy to maximise his potential and be ready for whatever life throws at him. Bringing Up Boys Who Like Themselves is the indispensable guide to supporting boys to grow up to be emotionally intelligent, thriving young men.

This is an account of a life lived online. Swiping for approval. Scrolling for gratification. Searching for connection. From the glow of a screen in the middle of the night, to the harsh glare of the hospital waiting room, Validate Me, is a raw and honest look at the highs and the lows of a digital life.

Anxiety is on the rise, and teenagers are not immune. In fact, the prevalence of social media makes social anxiety in adolescents more likely than ever. Does your teen compare themselves to the influencers and pop stars they see on Instagram? Our teenagers are fighting an uphill battle when it comes to self-image. They’re surrounded by airbrushed photos and the pressure to live up to an impossible ideal–even more so than we were when we were younger.

Are you ready to lose weight and transform your body, mind, and spirit in just 10 days? If so, Jordan Rubin, one of America’s most recognized and respected natural health experts, has a revolutionary approach to help you win the battle of the bulge and experience a true health breakthrough. Combining the Bible’s ancient wisdom with the best of modern science, The Maker’s Diet Revolution unveils an eating plan that can help you shed unwanted pounds while cleansing and detoxifying your body.

Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours, women are no longer born naturally; girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. freida and isabel are best friends. Now, aged 16 and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions - wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top 10 beautiful girls in their year.

Are you ready to silence self-doubt, embrace your natural beauty, and walk confidently in your power? This book is your daily guide to unshakable self-worth, designed specifically for Black women to embrace their beauty, silence negative self-talk, and stand boldly in their authenticity. You deserve to feel confident, loved, and worthy every single day. And with the right affirmations, you can rewire your mindset, release self-doubt, and step into the powerful Black queen you were born to be!

This book is dedicated to those suffering with an eating disorder called anorexia nervosa. I am writing based on my experience with the disease. The personal accounts within this book can aid in identifying and overcoming this disorder. This book can help you to see the beautiful girl in the mirror, regain your appetite, and begin talking about your feelings without fear of judgment.

À cause de leur physique ingrat, Mireille, Astrid et Hakima ont gagné le "concours de boudins" de leur collège de Bourg-en-Bresse. Les trois "boudinettes" découvrent alors que leurs destins s'entrecroisent en une date et un lieu précis : Paris, l'Élysée, le 14 juillet. Leur été est donc tout tracé : destination la fameuse garden-party de l'Élysée. Et tant qu'à monter à Paris, autant le faire à vélo - comme vendeuses ambulantes de boudisn, tiens ! Ce qu'elles n'avaient pas prévu, c'est que leur périple attire l'attention des médias... jusqu'à ce qu'elles deviennent célèbres !

Whether you're aware of it or not, you've been born into a system of degeneration that harms the planet and every person and creature alive. In order for transformation to occur, says author Jordan Rubin, "You must make a decision to take steps today to become part of the solution". Planet Heal Thyself will teach you how to start a "revolution of regeneration" in the areas of health and nutrition, sustainable agriculture, and food production as well as economic prosperity and abundance.

Hollywood, the music industry, and large corporations promise happiness, pleasure, popularity, and power if we would just buy what they are selling. But their tactics are smoke and mirrors, and their promises are hollow. From photoshop to misleading advertising to the use of paid celebrities, a cocktail of lies tell us how we are supposed to look and feel about ourselves.

This guided mediation system gives you positive suggestions that will help you quiet your mind and melt away stress, leaving your body deeply relaxed for a great night's sleep. While you're sleeping, the program will help you remove blocks from your past and embrace positive, confident thinking about your body. You will create empowering beliefs about your body with this incredible program.

'Your body is not an ornament - it is the vehicle to your dreams.’ When was the last time you wore a bikini without a care in the world? Did a bomb in the pool? Or participated in an activity that gave you such a thrill you almost wet your pants? (Or you actually did!) Taryn Brumfitt - director of award winning documentary Embrace and fiercely passionate champion of women - has inspired over a million people across the world to embrace their bodies. Her message is urgent, critical, and incredibly inspiring.

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.