Like Your Body
What is it?
Like Your Body is a free resource for young women. It is about promoting positive body image and empowering young women. Like Your Body covers topics such as;
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Different ideas of beauty
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Images of women and body size in the media
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Pressure about body image from friends and family
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Healthy eating and the dangers of dieting
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Healthy exercising
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How to get active and take a stand against negative ideals of body image
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Where young women can go for help
Like Your Body is a readable and fun way to address these issues.
Why?
YWCA and Y-Dub work to advocate for, empower and inspire young women. It is well known that body image issues and eating disorders affect a large number of women. Like Your Body is a resource that empowers young women to think about their bodies in a positive way and provides them with lots of places to go for help if they are having problems with body image.
It is a useful resource for schools, counsellors, youth health centres and other medical centres to provide for young women. It is important to get this message out to as many young women as possible!
Who?
Like Your Body is aimed at young women between the ages of 10 and 17 years. This does not mean that the messages don’t transfer to women and men of all ages; but the booklet focuses on young women because they are most likely to have body image problems.
Where?
Like Your Body is a FREE resource provided by YWCA of Aotearoa New Zealand and funded by the Todd Foundation. You can order your booklets by emailing us on info@ywca.org.nz
A contribution to postage for large orders is much appreciated
LIKE YOUR BODY
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