Loving yourself can be a pretty difficult journey to embark on. You have to try and overcome years of self loathing, for one. Add to that years of information and education where you’ve been told by mainstream media and most…
Body positivity isn’t for you – why I decided to leave it behind
My guess is, that for most people reading this, body positivity isn’t for you. I mean, it’s definitely the buzz word of the minute! People everywhere are posting selfies and flaunting a new found confidence. All the while, they’re hashtagging…
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 20 – Body Image and Mental Health
There is a direct correlation between body image and mental health. This week (13th – 20th May 2019) is Mental Health Awareness Week. This year, the theme is Body Image – how we think and feel about our bodies. Those…
My body is not promotional material and neither is yours.
Some recent news has forced me to stop and think about the fact that my body is not promotional material, for anyone – and neither is yours. Seeing Queen Latifah in a swimsuit on a magazine cover cruelly labelled “beached…
Skinny Doesn’t Equal Happy
Something I know to be true is that skinny doesn’t equal happy. Recently I started a new weekly Q and A series on Instagram all about body positivity and self love. A lot of the questions I get really stick…
Being Beach Body Ready
As summer approaches, we are often forced to think about being beach body ready. If there’s one term I can’t stand it’s ‘beach body ready‘. It’s toxic, it’s destructive and it’s just totally negative. It implies that you have to look a…