Healthy Body Image
Every Spring semester, we celebrate loving yourself with positive body image during Healthy Body Image Awareness Week and provide resources on positive self-image.
Healthy Body Image Awareness Week
Healthy Body Image Awareness week always coincides with the National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (#NEDAwareness).
From February 25, 2019-March 3, 2019, we will be asking students on social media to take the pledge to promote positive body in themselves and others to counteract media's potential influence on normalizing unrealistic body standards.
Spring 2018 Pledges
In Spring 2018, twenty-nine individuals made the pledge. Check out what they pledged to do:
| How many pledged? | What did these individuals pledge to do? |
|---|---|
| 26 individuals | I pledge to move beyond society’s ideal body standards and embrace my own body. |
| 25 individuals | I pledge to tell myself one positive thing about my body every time I look in the mirror and appreciate that I am original and there’s only one me. |
| 25 individuals | I pledge to respect my body and not try to fit media’s image of attractiveness. |
| 26 individuals | I pledge to keep a healthy and active lifestyle for myself and no one else. |
| 27 individuals | I pledge to not judge people based on their body shape and size. |
| 26 individuals | I pledge to be proactive about negative body images and challenge unrealistic and demeaning body talk. |
| 25 individuals | I pledge to become more media literate and think critically about what I see, hear and read, especially on social media. |
| 26 individuals | I pledge to love my body unconditionally. |
Take the body positive pledge ANYTIME before NEDA Week