the wonderful world of you

Emma Dauparus Illustrated by Harriet

Social media

Social media can be a positive tool! In order make an effort to use social media positively, unfollow people who don't promote positivity and positive body image (this includes people who post photoshopped/extremely posed photos and people who put down others based on appearance). Instead, try to follow people who understand positive body image and promote it properly (this includes people who post realistic photos of themselves and people who promote self-love).

Fitness It’s important to use fitness to work with your body and be proud of it when it performs well. Remember to congratulate your body when it does something impressive - you should be proud of its achievements! Your body does not define you, and it does so much for you, even when it lies on the couch all day, your body keeps you alive and it always wants to treat you well.

Body Neutrality

You don't have to always love everything about yourself, some days you may feel different than others, and that’s okay. It can often help to talk to and treat your body as another person, it will help you learn to accept your body (eg. my body is very strong, my body felt a bit tired today so I let it rest). And remember that your body is one of so many things that make up you (and it is usually the least interesting, no matter what it looks like).

world of you and Maya Hess Gilpin and Anviti Sinha

Lizzo

Melissa Jefferson, known as Lizzo, is an American born singer, songwriter, actress, flautist and activist. She became famous in 2016 for her musical talents and uses her talent to explore diversity and self-love through music. She has faced significant backlash and appearance-related hate from the media due, but regardless, she continues to be herself on social media and promote individuality and positivity. By using her social media platforms, specifically instagram to speak out for body positivity, inclusion of race, gender and sexuality it gives her audience a real perspective of her own life. This is very important because while being a confidence icon and all for self-love, she shares her experience of the journey of body positivity, and often opens up about her own bad days and blips in her confidence.