1. Body Image Awareness Seminars
“Reshaping your mind, not your body!”
Aly Bailey, PhD Candidate
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2. Agenda: Seminar 5 Topic: Respecting the body
Take home task: Opportunity to share
Introduction to intuitive eating
Activity: Intuitive eating
Video: Poodle science
Presentation: Embodied exercise & benefits to body image
Take home task

3. What makes you unique? Take home task discussion
Opportunity to share your 5 unique qualities

4. Intuitive Eating
Questions: What factors influence what or when you eat?
What factors influence when you don’t eat and what you don’t eat?
Definition:
Eating based on physiological hunger & fullness cues rather than situational & emotional cues
Mindful eating

5. Intuitive Eating Physical Hunger Emotional Hunger
Tends to come gradually VS
Feels sudden and urgent
Can be satisfied with any food
Causes very specific cravings
(e.g., pizza, ice cream)
Once full you’re likely to stop eating
You tend to eat more OR less than you normally would
Doesn’t cause feelings of guilt or shame
Can cause strong feelings of guilt and shame

7. Intuitive Eating Activity
Follow these steps carefully 1. Observe the food 2. Smell the food 3. Place on your tongue – let it sit there 4. Take a bite and chew slowly 5. Swallow after a few chews

8. An Alternative Perspective
Poodle Science
Thoughts and comments?

9. Thoughts?

10. An Alternative Perspective
Health at Every Size®
Should still be examined with a critical lens
Focus is on taking blame and guilt away because if blame worked no one would be overweight
Focus is off weight and on behaviour change and improving relationship with body and food
Focus is off weight and on behaviour because you can control your behavior, weight you cannot control - it is not a behaviour.

11. Embodied Exercise Dancing Street dancing Modern dancing Belly dancing
All had significantly higher body appreciation than non-dancers
Yoga
Lower emphasis on appearance
Related to health & fitness (function)
Although ballet dancing is associated with negative body image and eating disorders, other forms of dance are associated with positive body image
Street dancers – weight dissatisfied (comparable to general public) but highly appreciative of their bodies
Modern dance – high in appreciation
Belly dance – although thought of as sexualized, belly dancers showed higher appreciation and lower self-objectification
All three dance have commonality in value in diversity of body size and shape than traditional forms of dance
Another example of dance that may be associated with positive body image is ballroom although there is no research on this type of dance just yet.

12. Program Readings Comments? Questions?
NEDIC blog reading – Body positivity!
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13. Take home task
Write a letter to your sister, brother, child, grandchild, niece, nephew, spouse, or closest friend about how you think they should treat their bodies from what you have learned in this program.

14. We will return to this in seminar 6
Take home task
Write down as many positive things about your body as you can. Goal: 10
We will return to this in seminar 6

15. Body Image Awareness Seminars
“People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder”
- Salma Hayek