Body Image
Body Image
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How you look...
How you look...
This guide from Childline gives you the very best advice and guidance in helping you to feel good about a special person indeed...you!
Why we all need more body kindness!
Why we all need more body kindness!
This article from The Mix is a great guide to spreading body kindness and being body kind to ourselves
Spotlight on...Stretch Marks
Spotlight on...Stretch Marks
Stretchmarks are a common part of growing up. This guide from The Mix gives key information on them, and how common they are to both men and women
How can I support positive body image in myself and others?
How can I support positive body image in myself and others?
Body image is how we think and feel about ourselves physically.
Sometimes, we worry about how we look or what our friends think about our body. If you're struggling with body image, here’s some advice that can help you from the Young Minds website.
This website contains links to resources and support groups relevant to body image that may be useful to young people.
Body Image in the Media
Body Image in the Media
Dove's Self Esteem Campaign highlights some essential truths about images you might see online, on social media or in magazines. These are neither real nor achieveable.
As Dove say: "‘Average’ people are not models and do not have make-up artists or hairstylists or professional photo editors to make them look perfect, so it is like comparing things on totally different levels, which is not fair."
In this 'natural' selfie, the model has full make-up, a professional lighting rig, hundreds of photos taken to find the 'best' one, a staged set full of props, a design specialist retouching the photos on Photoshop. This distorts our perception of what beauty really is.
Body Image resources from the BBC
Body Image resources from the BBC
The following videos from the BBC challenge unreachable and unrealistic beauty standards, and what we can do to support our self esteem.
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