Live GR: Body Image, 13th July 7:30 AEST
Hey guys!
This Monday we're going to be having a live Getting Real chat surrounding Body Image! 😄
The way we view ourselves and our bodies is so important to talk about, because it directly impacts the way we think about ourselves and the way we treat ourselves!
We're all so different in lots of beautiful ways! But a lot of the time we're fed this toxic idea that there's a right or wrong way to look and that's just not true! 
Things like advertising and social media, as well as other societal pressures, really feed into this and it's hard to escape the negativity when it comes from so many different places 😞 So we'll be chatting about ways to challenge this!
We've been talking a lot about Body Image here on RO this month
There's the awesome Guide To: Body Image!
as well as the Let's Chat: Body Image ! 😄
Which you should check out! 😄
We'll be kicking off this live chat at 7:30 pm AEST and we'd love to see you all there!
Body Image can be a super confronting issue to talk about, so if this GR brings up some triggering feelings both Kids Helpline and the Butterfly foundation are really good resources to reach out to! We really want this GR to be as safe and welcoming for everyone as possible! So we also encourage you to check out our community guidelines here as well as RO's 6 ways to be body positive page
Can't wait to chat Monday! 😄
Again, everyone has such good and similar definitions! It seems the general consensus is that it's most important to be happy with you, no matter what anyone else thinks! 
hehe @Hozzles I'm glad you like the aesthetics of your brain structure 😛 Human bodies are pretty amazing hey
@Lost_Space_Explorer5 wrote:
I think there are so many cool things that our bodies have to offer e.g. breathing, talking, dancing, writing, flying (wait maybe not the last one, unless you count inventing an airplane)
@Lost_Space_Explorer5 damn, so you mean to tell me, that if I flap my arms I won't take off like a bird? 😂😂🤣
@Lost_Space_Explorer5 buuutt it's also pretty amazing humans have the capacity to flight through other means! 
@Hozzles and @Bananatime04 those are some really cool skills! 😄 😮
What are some things you like about your body/ that you body lets you do?
Hmm interesting and quite hard question for me! I like my flexibility and ability to do things like tumbling 
I’m not sure if that’s what the question meant or if it meant physical features. I guess I like my eyelashes, they’re really long 🙂
What are some things that you like about your body/ that your body lets you do?
Hmm.. such a simple question can be so hard! I guess I like my lips and my eyes, and when I do make-up (though of course my fine-motor skills need work). I can do the splits and can be quite flexible, so I like that. I'm waiting until COVID ends so I can get back into pole/ aerials, that was so fun and made be feel strong.
Weird, but I had an MRI recently and I got to see the inside of my brain, and I decided that even though it gives me a lot of problems it is structurally a nice-looking brain. 
ahaha @Lost_Space_Explorer5 love it! i shoulda done that 😛
@Hozzles super interesting point! body image can be really complicated!
Welcome to tonight's chat 🙂
I've previously looked at some of these, but been a while so they're not familiar in my short term memory 😛
However, I do recall seeing the 6 ways to be #bodypositive image around somewhere recently. And I really like that info graph 🙂
