How to Love Our Bodies, Love Ourselves: A Pinwheel Education Series

DETAILS:

Body image is perhaps the least understood and most complex of the issues the society experiences. The repetition of negative messages and experiences over time about our bodies can become internalized and influence not only our self-perception and self-talk, but about the body itself.

This special Pinwheel event, taking place during Eating Disorders Awareness week, will address the interplay between our brain, body and beliefs. Listeners will learn strategies that they can use so we can all learn how to love our bodies and love ourselves!

SPEAKERS:

Lisa Papez work in the world as a yoga teacher and body acceptance advocate is based on her belief that we are all okay exactly as we are.

Lisa is incredibly passionate about empowering people to feel good in the body they're in, to recognize their own worth, and to take up space and enjoy their life no matter their size. Through years of exploring, customizing and adjusting the physical practice of yoga to suit her own larger body, Lisa developed Body Positivity Yoga – an approach to yoga that is truly accessible to all ages, sizes and levels of ability. Body Positivity Yoga offerings are free of diet, weight-loss and other forms of body negative language. Lisa is a certified yoga teacher, a body image warrior, and a community partner in the Yoga and Body Image Coalition.

www.fatyogini.com
www.facebook.com/fatyogini
@fatyogini

Louise Green believes (and proves) that every "body" has limitless potential no matter their size or shape.

Green is the Founder of Body Exchange, a revolutionary fitness program dedicated to the plus-size community, with 6 locations in Canada. Through her business she has trained and interacted with thousands of plus size women and helped them realize their limitless potential. Green has been covered internationally on such platforms such as Time Magazine, The New York Daily, The Wall Street Journal and Yahoo. She has written groundbreaking articles for the Huffington Post, xoJane, HLN and Women you Should Know. Louise speaks to a range of audiences on body positivity, fitness and sport and limitless living, at any size. Her audiences have ranged from ten people to six hundred. Green is most alive when she is sharing the message that health and fitness comes with great diversity. When she isn’t training for triathlons, inspiring the hell out of those around her or crushing stigma with her bare hands, Louise coaches women to realize their athletic potential in the body they have today. Green IS the change we wish to see in the world. She tenaciously dedicates her time to a future where limitless athletic dreams are possible for every “body”.

bodyexchange.ca
www.facebook.com/thebodyexchangevancouver
@BodyExchange

ABOUT THE PINWHEEL EDUCATION SERIES:

The pinwheel series are a group of free, all inclusive monthly education events open to anyone in BC. The aim is to provide learning opportunities for the public on key mental health and healthy living topics, and host a forum where people can engage in dialogue with experts and persons with lived experience.

All Pinwheel events take place on Thursdays from 12-1pm (PST). You can join us:

In person: Room P3-306, Mental Health Building #85, BC Children's Hospital, 4555 Heather St., Vancouver, BC

Telephone: Dial 1-877-291-3022 and enter the access code 4611577#

For a list of upcoming Pinwheel topics, click on the website here: http://keltymentalhealth.ca/events/pinwheel

ABOUT PEDAW:

The love our bodies, love ourselves! movement, brought to you by the Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign, is launched with activities and events taking place throughout the year! It is a province wide effort to raise awareness around prevention and early intervention of eating disorders as well as media literacy, resiliency, building healthy body image and self-esteem. Our mission is to provide an eating disorder prevention approach and resiliency based system of services, workshops, education, and support to people of all ages in the Province of B.C. We ask you to take part in supporting the ongoing love our bodies, love ourselves! movement in promoting health and preventing disordered eating and eating disorders. We hope you can take an active role to support the launch of this movement and start some meaningful and engaging discussions, as well as activities at your school, your family or your work place.

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at pedaw[at]familyservices.bc.ca

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