Set Body-Positive Resolutions for the New Year: Embrace Self-Care and Self-Love
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Set Body-Positive Resolutions for the New Year: Embrace Self-Care and Self-Love

This New Year, redefine your resolutions with a focus on body positivity and self-care. Instead of dieting and weight loss, embrace resolutions that celebrate your body’s strengths and nurture your well-being. From joyful movement to intuitive eating, discover how to set goals that honour and support yourself. Ready to deepen your body-positive journey? Our Body Image Course offers the tools and community you need to build a loving relationship with your body. Start your year with self-love and empowerment!

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Body Neutrality, Acceptance and Confidence: What's the Difference?
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Body Neutrality, Acceptance and Confidence: What's the Difference?

Many of us are wondering how on earth we're meant to like, or even accept our bodies, when we're being told from all angles that something isn't right about them and needs to be changed. Here I explain why it’s important to reach a place of body neutrality first and foremost, then progress to body acceptance/respect and then we may finally find body confidence.

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Does body positivity promote obesity?
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Does body positivity promote obesity?

Short answer: no, it promotes radical self-acceptance over self-loathing. It promotes a kinder society over a culture rife with appearance-based bullying and body shaming and it promotes physical and psychological recovery from dieting and disordered eating. Here's why:

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No Thank You, Fat Club
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No Thank You, Fat Club

Here's why I won't be joining my local slimming club, and why I gave up on weight loss in favour of much more worthy pursuits of my time and mental energy (and what happened to my health and fitness when I did this). 

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