More than a body Your body is an instrument, not an ornament
Book - 2020
Positive body image isn't believing your body looks good; it is knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks. How do you feel about your body? Have you ever stayed home from a social activity or other opportunity because of concern about how you looked? Have you ever passed judgment on someone because of how they looked or dressed? Have you ever had difficulty concentrating on a task because you were self-conscious about your appearance? Our beauty-obsessed world perpetuates the idea that happiness, health, and ability to be loved are dependent on how we look, but authors Lindsay and Lexie Kite offer an alternative vision. With insights drawn from their extensive body image research, Lindsay and Lexie--PhDs and founders of the... nonprofit Beauty Redefined (and also twin sisters!)--lay out an action plan that arms you with the skills you need to reconnect with your whole self and free yourself from the constraints of self-objectification.
- Subjects
- Published
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- "2020"--Title page. ©2021--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- 346 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references ([329]-338) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780358229247
9780358393849
- Rising with body image resilience
- Critiquing and creating your media environment
- From self-objectification to self-actualization
- From divided to united as women
- Reclaiming health and fitness for yourself
- A resilient reunion.
Review by Kirkus Book Review