How To Change The Way You Feel About Your Body with Emily Lauren Dick

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is alarming how easy body-shaming becomes a topic for teasing and bullying to little kids. With peer pressure, its effects can be more damaging to the mind of someone innocent. But how can we adults protect them from this if we struggle with it? In this episode of The Fit Mess, Emily Lauren Dick talks about her book</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Body Positive: A Guide to Loving Your Body</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and what it tells us about body positivity and the steps we can take to make it practical in our daily lives. The episode also tackles the role of media in the issue, how it affects both women and men, and how your body perception can affect your parenting.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find out how a healthy body outlook is defined in this episode of The Fit Mess with Emily Lauren Dick!</span></p> <p><strong>One Move Toward Body Positivity </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Emily, there are countless ways where one can move toward body positivity. Focusing on non-physical achievements, dressing comfortably, and talking to a therapist are just a few of the many steps people can take to nourish a healthier outlook of their bodies. But aside from the ones she mentions in her book,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Body Positive: A Guide to Loving Your Body,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Emily decides to take this movement forward through one particular step. She wants advertisers to take accountability for the images they show. By partnering with the organization</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Live Life Unfiltered</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, they plan to soon launch a campaign called</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Show Me Unfiltered.’</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This campaign will take after the law in France, effective in 2017, that required commercials to use disclaimers for any sort of image that is digitally altered.