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Body Positive Yoga—Interview with Jessamyn Stanley

By Jessamyn Stanley — 2015

Talk with Jessamyn Stanley about yoga as therapy, body image, diversity in yoga, haters on the internet, and much more.

22:06 min

Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image

Straight/Curve examines the industries and obstacles responsible for our current body image crisis and showcases the dynamic leaders fighting for more diversity of size, race and age.

Movie
2017
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Embrace: The Documentary

Embrace follows body image activist Taryn Brumfitt's crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies.

Movie
2016
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52 Ways to Love Your Body

Do you look in the mirror and see all the things you dislike about your body? For many of us, the first step to loving our bodies is being able to look at our reflection and not criticize what we see.

Book
Kimber Simpkins
2016
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I’m a Strong, Fit Yoga Teacher—And I Still Get Insecure About My Belly

How we can all recognize our bodies for the awesomeness they are.

Article
Kathryn Budig
2015
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Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don’t Need Flat Abs to Live It

Instagram star Megan Jayne Crabbe is determined to spread the word that loving the body you have is the real path to happiness.

Book
Megan Jayne Crabbe
2018
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Fat Is Not the Problem—Fat Stigma Is

“Health experts” are sending incorrect and destructive messages about the relationship between weight and wellness.

Article
Lindo Bacon, Amee Severson
2019
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Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight

Fat isn’t the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates “thin” with “healthy” is the problem. The solution? Health at Every Size.

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Lindo Bacon
2010
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Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

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Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo (foreword)
2020
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10 Steps to a Positive Body Image

One list cannot automatically tell you how to turn negative body thoughts into positive body image, but it can introduce you to healthier ways of looking at yourself and your body.

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National Eating Disorders Association
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Second Edition)

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.

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Sonya Renee Taylor
2021
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