Golda Poretsky's Blog, page 18
April 9, 2012
The "I Did It, So You Can Too!" Phenomenon
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April 2, 2012
Announcing The “Beautiful Body Love” Pinterest Contest
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Announcing The "Beautiful Body Love" Pinterest Contest
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My Favorite: Mistakes
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March 29, 2012
Teen Week: Fatness, Weirdness & Other Stuff
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March 26, 2012
Exercise Your Right To Bare Arms!
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March 19, 2012
Fix It Or Accept It?
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March 14, 2012
Attention New Yorkers! Come To The Joy of Being In Your Body Workshop with Me & Ragen Next Week!
GET YOUR TICKET HERE: http://bodyjoy.eventbrite.com/
Immerse yourself in two hours of pure fun and body joy!
Golda Poretsky and Ragen Chastain are two divas of the fat positive/ Health At Every Size (R) world who are coming together for one fabulous and rare workshop.
In this 2 hour experience we'll talk about how to love living in your body from a physical and emotional perspective, even in a world that rarely honors a diversity of bodies. You'll dance with plus-sized professional dancer Ragen Chastain who will teach a routine and modifications that make it fun for people of all levels and abilities. It will be a chance to move for the pure joy of movement and explore ways to connect with your amazing body.
Then Golda will share some of her top techniques for feeling sexy and confident no matter what your size. She'll help you shift the negative thoughts that you may have about your body so that you stop comparing and despairing and start appreciating the body you have right now.
This class is for people of any size, shape, gender, and age who want to bask in an environment that honors their amazing bodies.
Make sure to register early, space is limited and Ragen is in from Austin, TX and will only be doing one workshop!
Please wear clothes that you can move in comfortably. Also, bring water or another drink to stay hydrated. Also, please note that there is an elevator to the space and it is wheelchair accessible.
Pay $20 here to reserve your spot, or you can pay $25 cash at the door.
About Ragen & Golda:
Ragen Chastain is a three-time National Champion dancer, and in addition to teaching dance workshops she writes and speaks about self-esteem, body image and Health at Every Size . Ragen has educated and entertained organizations including Rotary International, the Girl Scouts, and the University of Texas at Austin . You can find her blog at www.danceswithfat.org.
Golda Poretsky, HHC is a certified holistic health counselor and founder of Body Love Wellness, a program designed for plus-sized women who are fed up with dieting and want support to stop obsessing about food and weight. Through her non-judgmental, Health At Every Size counseling programs, Golda helps women transform their relationship with food and feel gorgeous at any size. Her programs and activism work have been featured on CBS's The Early Show, ABC's Nightline, NBC's LX New York and Time Out New York . She is also author of Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal, available in softcover, Kindle, and Nook.
EVENT DETAILS:
DATE: Sunday, March 25
TIME: 3PM – 5PM
LOCATION: Simple Studios 134 West 29th Street Room 208, New York, NY, 10001
INVESTMENT: $20 in advance. $25 cash at the door.
I can't wait to see you there!.
Attention New Yorkers! Come To The Joy of Being In Your Body Workshop with Me & Ragen Next Week! originally appeared on Body Love Wellness on March 14, 2012.
March 12, 2012
How To Get Started With Health At Every Size
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Moving from a diet/weight loss mentality to a Health At Every Size® mentality can feel pretty daunting. It's not necessarily easy to let go of typical beliefs around weight and health when everyone from your doctor to your mom to various media to your office mate are telling you about the wonders of the latest diet/celebrity weight loss/the dangers of fat, etc. Even if you've been reading about HAES® and understand why it makes sense, it can be hard when you actually try to apply it to your own life.
So how do you go from the theory of Health At Every Size® to the practice of it? My advice is — just start somewhere. Just do one thing that you associate with Health At Every Size® and commit to it for a week or a month or however long you need.
What will your first step be?
Let's take a step back and define Health At Every Size®. I like to use Linda Bacon's definition. She says that it encourages:
"Accepting and respecting the natural diversity of body sizes and shapes.
Eating in a flexible manner that values pleasure and honors internal cues of hunger, satiety, and appetite.
Finding the joy in moving one's body and becoming more physically vital."
In a nutshell, these three principles are the basis for HAES®. As Linda notes, "It supports people in adopting health habits for the sake of health and well-being (rather than weight control)." By adopting and internalizing these principles, we practice HAES®.
These principles are, of course, deceptively simple. If you've been a chronic dieter for years and years, it's likely going to be a difficult transition from dieting and restricting to "eating in a flexible manner that values pleasure and honors internal cues of hunger, satiety, and appetite." If you've only ever exercised to lose weight and burn calories, it may be hard to find the joy in moving your body. If you've believed heart and soul in the thin beauty ideal all your life, "accepting and respecting the natural diversity of body sizes and shapes" likely will be challenging.
Truthfully, this is the bulk of what I do with my clients — supporting them to really make these principles part of their every day lives. And of course, working with a HAES® counselor is a really wonderful way to get support with living a HAES® lifestyle.
But if you aren't working with a counselor, where can you start? I say, start anywhere. Start with anything that seems fun and/or even a little easy. For example, if you already have an idea of how you can exercise in a way that makes you feel vital, go for it. If you feel like you're already starting to see the beauty in a diversity of bodies, focus your efforts on that. If you're intrigued by the idea of really paying attention to your hunger and fullness and eating with that awareness, try that. Don't start with the thing that seems really hard or incomprehensible.
One of the beautiful things about HAES® is that each of the 3 main principles interact with one another. Respecting the natural diversity of body sizes and shapes may lead you to respect your body more, which may lead you to eat and exercise in a more intuitive healing way. Paying attention to your hunger may allow you to notice what else you're hungry for in your life, which may lead you down a very healing path of connecting with yourself and your desires. Moving your body with joy may allow you to see the beauty in a variety of bodies and your own body.
You really don't know where your HAES® journey may take you, but it's important to take that first step. Whatever first step you take is a good one.
What was or will be your first step on your HAES® journey? Let me know in the comments section below.
Golda is a certified holistic health counselor and founder of Body Love Wellness, a program designed for plus-sized women who are fed up with dieting and want support to stop obsessing about food and weight. Go to http://www.bodylovewellness.com/free to get your free download — Golda's Top Ten Tips For Divine Dining!
How To Get Started With Health At Every Size originally appeared on Body Love Wellness on March 12, 2012.
March 8, 2012
Over, But Not Out
Last week, The Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit ended its month-long run with an awesome interview with Paul Campos and Amy Erdman Farrell.
This amazing and inspiring telesummit may be over, but you can still get ALL of the call recordings!
Here's just a sampling of what we covered on the calls:
Ways to use fashion to support healthy body image
How to communicate about fat with your partners
What to do when you feel like abandoning your workouts
How the moral panic about fatness relates to other societal fears
Tips on where to find work-appropriate clothes
How to deal with weight bias at the doctor's office
How fat activism can inform and affect the way you feel about your body
The keys to building an online following
Thoughts on what "coming out" means when it comes to fatness
Why disengaging from the "fat=unhealthy" paradigm is so healing
Simple ways to engage in fat activism
So much more!
When you get your All Access Pass, you'll be able to listen to the calls on the web through the end of March, or download them and listen to them whenever you want with an mp3 player.
Click here to get the pass now. Get ready to be inspired!
Over, But Not Out originally appeared on Body Love Wellness on March 8, 2012.
