Tweens and National Eating Disorder Week
Next week, February 21st-27th is the National Eating Disorders Awareness week. Festivities to raise awareness for the devastation of disordered eating will be going on across the country. Of course, the Tween2Queen classes will also be starting this week!! These classes are meant to help girls ages 9-13 love the skin they are in, and to build a strong mother-daughter bond for increased connection so that body image issues and “fat talk” can be addressed and talked through. Did you know that many girls start paying attention to what they eat from a dieting standpoint by age 8?
I found this video today that talks about an operation beautiful campaign to get women and girls posting encouraging notes in public places to remind ourselves that we are beautiful, we are enough, and that a scale cannot tell us our worth. I am in love with this idea. It is so easy to slip into a mode of self-destruction. We compare ourselves with everyone around us, and we wonder why we never feel like we will ever measure up. Did we every stop to wonder why we are using another person as a measuring stick? YOU are beautiful. You are lovely. You are unique. You are needed to be the person you are to impact this world for your talents, character, and personality.
Local events will also be offered at the University of Colorado in Boulder including eating disorder screenings and panel discussion with experts on Monday 2/22/10 at the UMC. CU will be showing 2 great films at 6pm on 2/23/10 and 2/24/10 respecitively for: Miss America 2008 Kristen Haglund: “Freedom from Perfection: Overcoming Body Wars, Diet Culture, and Taking Back Our Souls” and “America the Beautiful: Is America Obsessed with Beauty?” Also offered during the week will be a workshop for “How to Help Someone with an Eating Disorder”. For more information contact felicia.greher@colorado.edu.
Don’t forget…it isn’t too late to get involved with your tween and still get a free $15 iTunes gift card by signing up for the fun Tween2Queen class starting 2/24/10 at 6:45pm at the Solstice Center in Boulder. Kick that negative body talk to the curb with us!! Contact Nicole at 303-482-6290 to sign-up today!
