Body Positivity / Detoxing

The Best Use of the Human Body

Mental Health Awareness Week in UK ran from 13 – 19 May this year, and the focus was on body image [https://inews.co.uk/news/health/mental-health-awareness-week-2019-what-when-body-image-uk-theme-may-dates/]. According to research by the Mental Health Foundation which spearheaded this awareness-raising initiative in 2001, “one in five of the 4,505 adults surveyed (20 per cent) felt shame…

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10th June 2019
The Best Use of the Human Body
To be alive is to create
Body Positivity / Detoxing / Suicide

Surviving Our Image Obsessed Culture: how body shaming affects us all

Accusations or self-appraisals of having the wrong body type or shape are becoming an increasing feature of life in the western media. In the relatively liberal western democracies, it is now the norm to display all or large areas of the human body as an expression of being confident or…

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10th June 2019
Surviving Our Image Obsessed Culture: how body shaming affects us all
Body Positivity / Detoxing

Nudity in the Public Domain

The American actress, Jessica Biel, gave voice to a view which many women probably wish they had the courage to share. Speaking of her fashion choices when she was younger, she stated, “I wish I would’ve explored some different shapes, and not gone sexy all the time…I think if you…

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10th June 2019
Nudity in the Public Domain