1. “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
-Peace Pilgrim

2. Body Image & Acceptance
Background on Body Image
Body image is how you see yourself and how you think others see you. Good body image is key to mental and physical well-being and it is defined by self-esteem, past experiences, messages from society, cultural pressures, relationships and mood.
Acceptance- the nonjudgmental embracing of what IS…right here, right now.
It is allowing yourself to simply, BE
Be who you are, right here and now.
Hayes S. C., Follette, V. M., Linehan, M. M. (2004)

3. Body Image & Acceptance
Different Body Types
Disabilities, Illness, and Non-normative Body Types
Is “beauty” only for the young, fit, and “normal?”
Often considered “asexual, ” or not, “real___”
Challenge the “ideal”

4. Body Image & Acceptance
Sexuality
Sexuality and Gender
Are there only 2 kinds of each???
Challenge the two extremes

5. Body Image & Acceptance
Culture
Cultural standards vary
Thin is not always beautiful

6. Body Image & Acceptance
“____isms”
Prejudice
Work force
Customer service
Health care

7. Body Image & Acceptance
People come in all: SHAPES, COLORS, ABILITIES, SIZES, & HEALTH VARIABLES
Acceptance of others promotes diversity
Acceptance begins with you.
Easier said than done!!! It takes practice.

8. Body Image & Acceptance
Accepting Yourself
Body Acceptance= Hard to do
Not a value judgment of yourself
Simply accepting what you cannot change
Viewing the self as a whole person
You are not your parts!
Acceptance begins with you.
Objectifying is seeing yourself, or others as body parts: chest, arms, stomach…etc

9. Body Image & Acceptance
Permission to Be You
Acceptance is NOT resignation…but rather a way of giving yourself permission to be.
Acknowledge all facets of who you are
Not judging as “good/bad”
Allowing you to be as you are today

10. Body Image & Acceptance
Interested in taking action?
Acceptance begins with you.

11. Body Image & Acceptance
…and now, a final word on acceptance from Incubus…
Drive

12. Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear Take the wheel and steer It's driven me before and seems to have a vague Haunting mass appeal But lately I'm beginning to find that I Should be the one behind the wheel Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there I'll be there So, if I decide to waiver my chance To be one of the hive Will I choose water over wine And hold my own and drive? Aah ah ooo It's driven me before and it seems to be the way That everyone else gets around But lately I'm beginning to find that when I drive myself my light is found Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there I'll be there Would you choose water over wine? Hold the wheel and drive Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there with open arms and open eyes yea Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there I'll be there
Drive
Songwriters: Pasillas, Jose Anthony Ii; Boyd, Brandon Charles; Katunich, Alex; Kilmore, Christopher E; Einziger, Michael Aaron;]