FAT TALK FREE WEEK is an annual public awareness effort to draw attention to the damaging impact of the “thin ideal” on women’s self-esteem. Seeing first hand how these negative thoughts contribute to eating disorders, the clinicians in the Eating Disorders Program at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute invite local colleges and universities to participate in activities to create awareness and change. The hope is that students joining this national effort may become “body activists” and modify the way they think and talk about their bodies, and as a result, reduce eating disorder behaviors. Students are asked to take the pledge below. For more information on the national program, please visit www.endfattalk.org/ or www.facebook.com/FatTalkFree
Start by Taking the Pledge:
Today I promise to eliminate FAT TALK
from conversations with my friends, my family and myself.
Starting now, I will strive for a "healthy ideal," which I know looks
different for every woman, and focuses on HEALTH, not weight or size.
I will celebrate the things about myself
and the women in my life that have
nothing to do with how we look.
I decide to end Fat Talk NOW!
Together we can stop focusing on the scale and change negative
body perception and the breeding of eating disorders.
St. Louis Events for 2011: (Open to the public)
View the film Killing Us Softly 4
Followed by a panel discussion with staff from Maryville University and
the Eating Disorders Program at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute.
at Maryville University Auditorium
7-9 p.m. Monday, October 17, 2011
Maryville University • 650 Maryville University Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141
Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film shows new print and television advertisement images with messages that often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. Note: Some of the images in this film may be triggering to those with eating disorders. For a preview on the film, Killing Us Softly 4, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlmho_RovY&feature=related
Scales Are For Fish Art Exhibit:
Webster University October 22 through November 5, 2011
University Center - 470 East Lockwood Ave. St. Louis, MO 63119
Open Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For information about Fat Talk Free Week activities at individual campuses, contact:
Fontbonne University Claudia Charles ccharles@fontbonne.edu or 314-889-1434
As part of the week’s activities, students and the public are asked to create works of art for this ongoing traveling display. If you would like to create your own scale for the exhibit (or free yourself from your scale and donate it to the project), contact Cathy Lander-Goldberg, LCSW, in the Eating Disorders Program at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute at (636)532-9188 or by e-mail at landergoldberg@aol.com. (Note: Scales will be displayed at various venues and artists should display “at their own risk”. SLBMI and the venues reserve the right to select works of art that are consistent with the message of Fat Talk Free Week.)
For information about Fat Talk Free Week activities at individual campuses, contact:
Maryville University Jennifer Henry at jhenry@maryville.edu 314-529-9518
St. Louis Community College-Meramec
Hope Steiner hsteiner@stlcc.edu or Susie Herman sherman@stlcc.edu at 314-984-7575
St. Charles Community College Brenda Hollrah - bhollrah@stchas.edu 636-922-8544
Washington University Nishi Boppana nboppana@wustl.edu, or Jackie Miller jmiller@wustl.edu
Webster University Gladys Smith gmsmith@webster.edu 314-246-7030
Harris Stowe State University Vicki Bernard BernardV@hssu.edu 314-340-5089
University of Missouri-St. Louis Nicole Jackson njackson1913@yahoo.com
Resouces Addressing Body Image:
VIDEOS:
Tri Delta Fat Talk Free Week 2008 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKPaxD61lwo
Evolution of Beauty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knEIM16NuPg
Fat Talk Free Week: www.facebook.com/FatTalkFree
Beauty Pressure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I
True Colors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUsKIApTewQ
Dove Onslaught http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bseHFrdTm8k&feature=related
Daughters Sisters Project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyigeQ_VgEo
Jean Kilborne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlmho_RovY&feature=related
FILMS:
America the Beautiful
Beyond the Looking Glass: Self-Esteem and Body Image
Killing Us Softly Series (Jean Kilbourne)
Lbs.
Miss Representation (documentary on media messages by Jennifer Siebel Newsom)
Real Women Have Curves
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Slim Hopes
WEBSITES:
Reflections Body Image Program - http://www.bodyimageprogram.org/
True You Workbook -:
http://msbrandent.vo.llnwd.net/d1/msnbeet_doveus/cfrb/workshops/true_you.pdf
www.adiosbarbie.com
http://www.bodyoutlaws.com
http://www.mediaawareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teachable_moments/campaignrealbeauty.cfm
http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org
http://www.dove.us/Social-Mission/campaign-for-real-beauty.aspx
http://www.dove.us/Social-Mission/Self-Esteem-Toolkit-And-Resources/
http://www.bodyimagehealth.org/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/perfectillusions/eatingdisorders/preventing_healthybody.html
Building a Better Body Image - http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=1&compID=6
National Institute on Media & the Family - http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_mediaeffect.shtml
The Body Positive - http://www.thebodypositive.org/index.php
Body Image Health - http://www.bodyimagehealth.org/index.html
Finding Balance - http://www.findingbalance.com/
NAAFA – National Association to Advance Body Acceptance –http://www.naafaonline.com/dev2/
Articles & Books on Body Image
Divining the Body: Reclaim the Holiness to Physical Self by Jan Phillips
“5 Comments Parents Should Never Make About a Child’s Weight”http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2007/08/31/five-comments-parents-should-never-make.html
101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body, by Brenda Lane Richardson & Elane Rehr
200 Ways to Love the Body You Have, Marcia Germaine Hutchinson
Body Betrayed, Kathryn Zerbe
The Body Image Workbook, by Thomas Cash
Body Image International Journal scholarly journal published by Elsevier
The Body Myth, Margo Maine Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty & Body Image, Ophira Edut
The Body Project, Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Body Wars, Margo Maine
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein
Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun by K. Wind Hughes & Linda Wolf
Feeling Good About the Way You Look: a Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems by Sabine Wilhelm
The Good Body, Eve Ensler
Life Doesn’t Begin 5 pounds from Now, Jessica Weiner
Love Your Body, Tami Brannon-Quan, Lisa Licavoli
Self-Esteem Comes in all Sizes, Carol A. Johnson
When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies, Jane Hirshman, Carol Munter
For additional books on body image and eating disorders, visit Gurze books at http://www.bulimia.com/index.cfm
Eating Disorders Organizations
AED – Academy for Eating Disorders –http://www.aedweb.org/
ANAD – National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders –http://www.anad.org/
ED Anonymous –http://www.eatingdisordersanonymous.org/
EDC – Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy, and Action –www.eatingdisorderscoalition.org
NEDA – National Eating Disorders Association –www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
IAEDP – International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals –http://www.iaedp.com/
Something Fishy - http://www.something-fishy.org/
St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Eating Disorders Program - http://www.slbmi.com/eating_disorders/index.htm
Eating Disorders Statistics: http://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/counseling/Eating_Disorder_Statistics.pdf
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