The essence of my Beauty Knowledge System is changing the conversation with yourself. Together we learn to communicate with our bodies and the result of that communication creates a natural approach to body confidence.
This concept is catching!
Award winning psychologist, Dr. Renee Engeln, PhD, based her new best seller, “Beauty Sick” on solving our cultural body shaming crisis with changing the conversations with have with each other, with our daughters, and with ourselves.
Dr. Renee Engeln’s “Beauty Sick” addresses the harm body shaming does to all women’s body image. Her Tedx talks on that damage have received over a quarter million viewers. After identifying the far reaching negative effects on women, she provides realistic solutions to recovering our power, our promise and our true selves.
“Today’s young woman face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty:
- They don’t want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them they are told they must look like them.
- Angry about the media’s treatment of women but, hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them.
- Mock modern culture’s absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they criticize by posing with a “skinny arm.”
- Understand what they see isn’t real, but still download apps to airbrush their selfies.
- Ready to fight back against their beauty sick culture, they need a way forward to create a different world for themselves.” Amazon Review
Every woman in the world knows the symptoms of beauty sickness. Every time she compares herself to the image on a screen, on the pages of a magazine, on an Instagram image on her cell phone, her negative reaction to her own appearance is a symptom of the national epidemic.
It will “take a village” to cure this cancer assaulting our self-esteem.
Become a part of the promise guaranteed by a better body image, one confident woman at a time!
Contact me, and together we’ll Stop the Body Shaming Now!
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2016 was a tough year for singing star, Kesha. In a recent interview with an online magazine, she discussed the negative effect the internet trolls and online criticism has had on her self-image. Having recently turned 30 years old, Kesha reflected on her relationship with other peoples’ opinions of her voice, her music, her body as they publicly expressed them on social media.
“There may have been so many positive ones but I always gravitate towards reading the negative ones,” Kesha said.
Does that sound familiar to you, too? I’m not an international singing star, but I have a wide personal and professional circle of social media contacts, and occasionally one of them chooses to take their personal pain out on me and my image. I may not even know the troll personally, but that doesn’t help removing the sting from the negative comment.
“I was making trolls and bullies the truth, making them my higher power,” Kesha continued. After spending a year reflecting on her life, her music, her body and herself, she discovered “strength in her vulnerabilities.” The pain Kesha’s body expressed when she focused on the online negativity, lead her to the solution. Finding peace with her self-image, she advised “Develop your own healthy relationship with the internet. Make sure you’re not hurting yourself with it.”
Your body will tell you through an emotionally painful reaction that you are allowing other people’s negativity into your space, your life. Through your body knowledge, you will sense the validity of the comments before they cause you emotional pain.
Kesha’s Three Steps for Social Media Sanity
Limit Your Exposure to Social Media
Focus on the present
Live in your real world, not cyberspace!
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Another incident of unnecessary body shaming hit the news this Monday morning when a family was refused on to their flight from Denver to Minneapolis because their 9 and 10-year-old daughters were dressed in leggings.
Apparently, leggings on female children are not considered “appropriate” to travel in when flying on free or deeply discounted passes. As Patricia Arquette tweeted,”leggings are business attire for ten-year-olds whose business is being children.”
Without going into the whole issue of gender bias,
What does this incident do to their emerging self- image as women?
What effect will that have on their body image now and in the future?
What can we do as individuals to stop those humiliating events before they happen?
Yes, the family flew on the next flight…after the girls changed their leggings into something else, or perhaps simply covered them with a skirt or shorts.
Unfortunately for those girls, there is no do-over. The damage has been done…at a national news level, no less! No amount of celebrity tweeting their outrage in defense of the girls, no amount of apologies from embarrassed airlines, and no amount of policy explanation from the parents will undo the damage inflicted on the girls’ nascent self-image.
Fortunately, there is help for all of us whose body image has suffered assaults from individuals, the media, each other as we matured from girls into women. The moment we get in touch with our best friend forever, our body, we will be able to restore body confidence to the level we deserve.
I am here to help.
Contact me for a sharing conversation at no charge to you.
Sincerely,
Stephanie Wood,
Founder of the “Body Knowledge System®”
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Have you noticed how much “body shaming” is happening in our culture lately?
It is not OK to Body Shame!
Social Media promotes Body Bullying!
To stop Body Shaming…Begin with your body!
While the rise of social media has had damaging effects, it has also empowered many women (and men!) to stand up against the bullies.
Alone, we are a single voice of protest.
Together, we are a chorus of positive energy pushing back against the attempted tyranny of the body bullies!
So, what are the next steps?
As the founder of the Body Knowledge System®, I’m here to help restore our integrity as we move from body shame to body awe*! My website guides women who want to progress from Body Shame to Body Awe through the successful application of my body knowledge system.
*Body Awe means respect filled with wonder when considering our body.
“AWESOME” Current culture uses “awesome” to describe the very best of the best. Notice the “we” in that word.
And even more practically . . . what are the practices you can incorporate into your everyday life to make this a reality?
Learn how Body Shaming can be erased forever with the Body Knowledge System® with Coach Stephanie Wood, PCC.
Body Shame → Body Acceptance → Body Confidence →
Body Awe!
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