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December 11, 2011
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Going Global
A special welcome to Melanie in Australia and Esther in Ghana, West Africa! We are excited to be building this movement internationally and look forward to the participation of your Dressing Room Project Action Teams.
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It's That Time of Year…
Please consider making a tax deductible donation to EWP & The Dressing Room Project this year. Your contributions large and small really help to sustain this important work.
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Sale:
You Are Beautiful
MugOur
You Are Beautiful
Mug, regularly $13.99, is on sale for just $11.99 this month. Check out this and other fun Dressing Room Project treats for yourself and others at our online store!
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November 4, 2011
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We're in The New York Times!
Two of our Advisory Board members, Donnette Noel and Danielle Travali were interviewed for the October 30th review of Kelly Clarkson's new album,
Stronger.
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Special Offer — cell phone shaped mirrors
Check out our latest cool Dressing Room Project product. These cute little purple folding compact mirrors really look like cell phones. Each mirror is packaged in a clear gift box with ribbon and includes free shipping to the continental US for just $7.99.
See all of our Special Offers!
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New Card Designs
Thank you to our Thunder Bay Action Team in Canada for several great new designs. We'll be featuring them on some of the buttons in our online store this month.
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October 6, 2011
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The Dressing Room Project in NYC
Thanks to Danielle Travali and friends for promoting The Dressing Room Project at the National Eating Disorders Association's Walk and Expo in NYC.
Held at Foley Square in Manhattan on October 2nd, The NYC NEDA Walk 2011 was a fundraising event bringing people together to raise awareness about eating disorders and body image issues.
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101 Beautiful Women
Our founder and director, Mimi Kates, has created an intricate collage in support of The Dressing Room Project. It includes our
Worry about the size of your heart
card and 101 inspiring women from ancient to modern times.The collage will be displayed as permanent table top art at The White Horse music hall in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Our Beautiful Women art table is being sponsored by Nova Luna Center, a facility providing Eating Disorders treatment in Maui, Hawaii.
Beautiful Women prints will be available for purchase in the near future. We're creating a companion deck of 101 cards, with information about each woman. We'll keep you posted!
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Thank You to The Red Boa
The Red Boa is an inspirational blog whose motto is We Are All Meant to Shine! We are delighted to see The Dressing Room Project featured as an example of spreading the light.
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Love Your Body Day
NOW Foundation's National Love Your Body Day is October 19th this year. It's a great time for us to remind ourselves and others to care for and appreciate our bodies.
Why not print and post (or hand out) our Free Cards or send some Dressing Room Project e-cards to friends in honor of the day?
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September 5, 2011
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being Ana: a memoir of anorexia nervosa — Shani Raviv
Meet Shani Raviv. She's our newest Sisters in Beauty Rebellion honoree.
We met her through our involvement with National Eating Disorders Awareness Week events last year and are impressed with her dedication to helping people heal.
Ten years ago Shani began her healing journey from anorexia and now considers herself fully recovered. She believes that writing her story and sharing it were an important part of her healing.
Shani is now the author of the engaging non-fiction book
being Ana: a memoir of anorexia nervosa
in which she tells the story of her journey to health.She gives talks and readings for
being Ana
and leads mini writing workshops for teens because she believes in the healing power of sharing our hearts through our words.See more about Shani and all of our Sisters in Beauty Rebellion honorees here.
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August 4, 2011
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Rachel Warren — A Beauty Inside & Out
Rachel Warren, a 22 year old graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and registered DRP Action Team Coordinator, has chosen to use The Dressing Room Project as her platform when she competes in the preliminary pageant for Miss Tennessee next year.
Born and raised in Nashville, Rachel is a self-proclaimed
southern belle
who tells us her many talents include being able to (no kidding)hypnotize a chicken.
She loves the south, camping, church activities, and teaching elementary school children.Surprisingly, the vibrant Rachel has never had a boyfriend. She says she's
waiting on the one that makes me feel special.
When asked why she chose the Dressing Room Project, she replies,
Unrealistic body images the media has given us to emulate are making us hate our bodies and it is time for this to stop!
She adds,I hope I can help lead girls into finding the beauty that they were each given and to live that purpose-filled life we were each meant to live!
Recognizing that some would criticize her participation in pageants, she says,
I am aware that pageants are known for the bathing suit portion and this all seems a bit contradictory. However, no matter how
Rachel asserts that a contestant's involvement in her community is much more important to the judges.perfect
a girl's body is, that is not what gets her the crown.
She conscientiously sets a positive example for younger girls.
I encourage healthy eating and exercise to my Action Team,
she assures us.This will make loving our bodies easier if we are taking care of them! Making healthy choices during the day and incorporating at least 40 minutes of exercise a day is what makes me confident on stage- not starving myself.
A concerned young woman of conviction, Rachel reminds us,
We need to stop comparing ourselves to other people and truly LOVE the body and qualities we already possess.
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Dishin' It Out
We thank Dishin' It Out, a women's talk radio show, for avidly promoting The Dressing Room Project. Your enthusiastic words are much appreciated! Described as
positive, empowering uplifting and enlightening,
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Sale:
You Are Beautiful!
BagOur
You Are Beautiful!
Tote Bag, regularly $17.99, is on sale for just $15.99 this month. Check out this and other fun Dressing Room Project items at our online store!
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July 5, 2011
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GalsUsa.org
We are honored that GALS (Girls And Lifelong Strategies, Inc.) has chosen to support the work of The Dressing Room Project.
GALS is a nonprofit organization on a mission to improve girls' self-esteem and educate them to recognize the warning signs of teen relationship abuse. They believe increased awareness and a better sense of self-worth can reduce the likelihood of girls' becoming victims.
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The Encyclopedia of Wellness
Author and editor of The Encyclopedia of Wellness, Sharon Zoumbaris, has chosen to feature The Dressing Room Project as an example of positive body image activism.
Her 3-volume set of books, due to be published in late 2011 or early 2012, will be a valuable resource for high school students regarding food, nutrition, disease prevention, alternative medicine and more. The Encyclopedia of Wellness is a publication by Greenwood Press, an imprint of ABC-CLIO.
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Goodshop!
When you shop online, please help support our work by using Goodshop.com. Type in
Emerging Women Projects
as your charity and click onverify.
Then, when you go to any of the hundreds of participating stores from there, they will donate a percentage of your purchase price to us.
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June 2, 2011
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Wise Words from Girls on the Run
Thank you to Roneisha, Kara, Sarah, Lauren, Eve, Brieanna, and Katelin of Girls on the Run in Asheville NC for sending us some terrific new Cards! Here are some of their messages:
- Be yourself.
- You don't have to hide under makeup and stuff!!!
- Be happy about yourself.
- Love yourself.
- Show who you really are!
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Get your Free Dressing Room Project button!
Like our FaceBook page and then email us with your address. We'll send Free buttons to the first 20 people this month.
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Check out our new summer BBQ Apron!
Our
Worry about the size of your heart, not the size of your body
apron is perfect for summer barbecues! Visit our store to see this and other fun Dressing Room Project items. Your purchases and donations make it possible for us to continue this important work.
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May 5, 2011
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Mother's Day Contest Winner
Elizabeth Becksvoort wrote this winning essay. Her Mom, Kim Becksvoort, will receive a
You Are Beautiful
Gift Bag for Mother's Day.My mother is more than just a parent, she is my best friend. Throughout my childhood she has taught me that as long as I stay true to myself, everything else will fall into place. She has been my rock and I know that even after she is gone, I will continue to draw strength from her memory and everything she has taught me.
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Red Pepper-Sage Hummus
Check out Dressing Room Project Board member, Danielle Travali's delightful hummus recipe. On her Holly Pinafore cooking show, she teaches us how to make this quick, healthy and yummy snack.
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Link to Us!
We have banners of various sizes and designs you can post. Spread the word about The Dressing Room Project. Blog about us. Tell your FaceBook friends. We'll love you forever.
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April 1, 2011
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Chocolate Ecstasy
Kimberly Riggins encourages us to eat healthfully... and include chocolate!
She wrote
Chocolate Ecstasy: 20 Delicious Recipes to Satisfy Your Soul Without the Guilt
to help us give ourselves permission to indulge, enjoy and savor whatever food we desire.If you buy the e-book this month, Kimberly will donate 10% to The Dressing Room Project.
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Women's Adventure Magazine
We're mentioned in the Spring 2011 edition of Women's Adventure Magazine. The article,
Tara in Training
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Contest: Is your Mom a positive influence?
Tell us how your Mom (or another significant woman in your life) has helped you to become a confident, happy person. You could win her a
You Are Beautiful
gift bag for Mother's Day!Email your short essay (up to 60 words) with
Mom Contest
in the subject. Please include your name, your mother's name, her t-shirt size (S,M L,XL,2X ) and the address you want her gift sent to if you win. (We are only able to send to addresses in the continental US.)All entries must be received by April 30th. By entering, you agree to have your essay published on TheDressingRoomProject.org. Good luck!
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Freebie: Yoplait yogurt
We like this. Yoplait is giving away a million cups of yogurt and encouraging people to get the calcium and Vitamin D we need. Fill in their simple form and get a coupon for a Free Yoplait mailed to you.
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March 1, 2011
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Project BodyTalk
We're featured on Project BodyTalk, a web site which helps people
start coming to terms with your body... and see how that simple act can change your life.
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New Sisters in Beauty Rebellion
See our newest Sisters In Beauty Rebellion (including Harriet Brown & Project BodyTalk.)
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Jennifers Fund
Thanks to everyone who helped with Jennifer's Fund last month. She and her family were grateful for our efforts. She is now in an eating disorders treatment facility. If you would like to send her words of encouragement, email us with
To Jennifer
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Special Offer
We hope you'll check out our new Special Offer. Dressing Room Project Mini Magnets are a deal at just $1 each including postage!
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February 1, 2011
Help Teen Achieve Recovery
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is February 20th- 26th. This year we are fund raising to help a teenager in need of eating disorders treatment.
Over 11 million people in the US suffer from an eating disorder,
reports The National Eating Disorders Association.In spite of the unprecedented growth of these disorders in the past two decades, insurance coverage for treatment is inadequate.
Jennifer (pseudonym used for anonymity) is a 17 year old high school senior with bulimia nervosa. She has struggled with the disease for over two years. She reached out to The Dressing Room Project for help.
Residential mental health treatment is not covered by Jennifer's insurance, yet she does not qualify for hospital treatment either due to her supposed
healthy
weight. People with bulimia are often of a deceptively normal looking weight, but the disease is potentially life threatening due to electrolyte imbalance which affects the heart and other major organs.Eating disorders have a 20% death rate, the highest of any mental disorder,
says Michelle Villanti, L.C.S.W., Clinical Director of the Nova Luna Center for Eating Disorders.One out of five people who have an eating disorder will die from it.
Ironically, insurance will not pay for Jennifer's treatment unless her situation becomes medically critical. She realizes that she needs to receive treatment before her disease progresses to the point where hospitalization is required.
This is upsetting because I don't want my disorder to get to that point,
says Jennifer.Jennifer's residential treatment will cost a hefty $45,000.
Shocked that their insurance will not help, Jennifer's mom said,
Of course we will do everything we can. You can't put a price on your child's life.
Jennifer told us,
Anything you can do to help me fulfill my dream of recovery would be greatly appreciated. God bless you for everything you do to help promote a healthy body image for young girls. You truly make a difference.
Tax deductible contributions may be donated at http://www.TheDressingRoomProject.org/donate.html or sent via postal mail to: EWP & The Dressing Room Project, PO Box 834 Black Mountain, NC 28711. Checks should be written to
Catalyst/EWP.
Half of all donations received from now through the end of February will go to
Jennifer's Fund for Recovery.
The balance will support ongoing eating disorders prevention work.Please help us make this a successful fund raising campaign!
Like
our Jennifer's Fund FaceBook page and share with friends.Donate if you can. Even a small amount makes a difference.
Thanks for caring.
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
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January 3, 2011
Eating Disorders Awareness Week
The Dressing Room Project is honored to be invited by NEDA as a partner organization for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week this year. Please check out their information below.
It's Time to Talk about It
during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, February 20-26, 2011. Join the nation's largest eating disorders outreach effort by committing to do just one thing to start the conversation in your community. NEDA provides tons of free and discount resources, fun activity ideas and much more! Click here to learn more about how you can make a difference.In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
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December 6, 2010
Goodshop For Us!
Doing your holiday shopping online? Please consider using Goodshop.com
Just select Emerging Women Projects as your charity and when you go to any of the hundreds of participating stores from there, they donate a percentage of your purchase price to us.
Amazon, Ebay, Bed Bath & Beyond, Apple, Best Buy, Gap, even FTD florists!
With a couple extra clicks you can do a lot of good. There's also an option to download the GoodSearch toolbar so that whenever you go to a participating store, it remembers you (& us)
Enjoy your holidays. Be safe, well and happy!
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 7:21 PM 0 comments
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November 2, 2010
You Asked For It!
Many of you have requested access to more card designs so you don't need to wait for the New Free Cards to be posted on our site.
Thank you for your patience! Now you can order a data cd with 60 card designs ready to print at our special DRP Card Store. (not at the main Dressing Room Project Store)
Hopefully this new option will help get more cards out there where they can be seen and appreciated.
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 5:00 PM 0 comments
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September 14, 2010
September Cards Are Here
New Free Cards are available to print and post.
Go ahead... Make the world a more beautiful place with Dressing Room Project Cards!
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 3:12 PM 0 comments
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April 12, 2010
New Cards!
New Free Cards are now available for you to print & post.
Happy Spring!
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 2:14 PM 0 comments
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January 8, 2010
We're Featured on Dragonfly Designs!
Dragonfly Designs, a socially responsible handmade jewelry company, has chosen The Dressing Room Project as their featured non profit for January 2010.
This is great for us... & for YOU!
EWP & The Dressing Room Project will receive 10% of January online jewelry sales.
As an extra bonus they are offering our friends 25% off all online jewelry purchases at Dragonfly Designs in January. Just use this promotional code: drp25
They've got some beautiful and unusual pieces.
I may do a little shopping myself...
Stay warm & healthy.
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 1:43 PM 0 comments
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December 15, 2009
Link To Us!
You can now link to TheDressingRoomProject.org with our banner page.
It's easy to add us to your web site or blog and spread the word. We really appreciate it and so will the women and girls you help to discover us!
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 1:09 PM 0 comments
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October 29, 2009
Royalty & The Dressing Room Project
We're excited to learn that Tiffany Gunderson, the newly crowned Miss North Metro in Minneapolis will be helping promote The Dressing Room Project in her travels.
Tiffany says,
I will spend my year promoting self-esteem and real beauty in young girls, speaking to classrooms and different organizations about issues pertaining to my platform. It will be so great to have The Dressing Room Project as a resource! What a great organization!
We're happy to have you on board, Tiffany. Thanks.
Our New Free Cards for October are ready! Come & get 'em.
I liked Lynn's idea (from a comment on my last post) of leaving her waitress a DRP Card with the tip. Some of us were slipping Cards into fashion mags and tabloids at the grocery checkout for a while... If anyone else has a creative suggestion please feel free to comment and let us all know!
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 11:30 AM 1 comments
Labels: Free Cards, Tiffany Gunderson
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September 25, 2009
Little Things...
The other day I came back to my parked car and found a note on the windshield tucked under my wiper blade:
Hello Stranger!
, it said,Thank you for your bumper sticker (size of your heart) It hit me just when I needed it!
Sometimes we forget that the little things we do can really make a big difference. So keep posting those Dressing Room Project Cards!
We are excited this month to announce the registration of our 200th Dressing Room Project Action Team. Welcome to Kelsey in Ohio whose Team received a special gift box of Dressing Room Project goodies including a
Worry about the size of your heart, not the size of your body
t-shirt, buttons and more.New Free Cards for September are now available on The Dressing Room Project web site. And check out the Special Offers page for T-shirts and buttons whose proceeds help support our work.
To Kelsey and everyone else out there participating in The Dressing Room Project, we want to say thank you for helping encourage women everywhere to see ourselves as unique beautiful individuals. Let's focus on our strengths to do good in this world!
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 11:05 AM 2 comments
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August 28, 2009
New Free Cards & More...
Hi there. Wanted to let you know that New Cards for August are now available for free download on our web site.
In other news, we've updated our Action Teams Map. We're now just 2 Teams shy of 200!
One of our Teams in Canada created a very sweet video of the cards their girls made. Hopefully the Team Coordinator will allow us to post it here. If your Action Team has a video or other project you'd like to share, just email me at the address on the web site.
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 10:24 AM 0 comments
Labels: Action Teams Map, New Cards
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July 29, 2009
Ways to Make Your Action Team Fun
Hi, everyone. My name is Danielle and I've been on the Advisory Board of EWP & The Dressing Room Project for a few years now. As an undergraduate at Manhattanville College, I decided to start my own Action Team in the fall of 2008.
Yet rather than having my teammates simply distributing The Dressing Room Project's positive body image cards in local fitting rooms, I also wanted the group to be an official on-campus club where students could exchange creative thoughts, ideas and concerns about body image in the media and in the local community while having a good time and forgetting about work for a while.
A group of about 15 women, we convened twice a month - every other Tuesday evening - to work on creative projects in a nurturing, judgment-free environment. I would like to share with you a few of our activities. Try them in your own Action Teams!
Also, please feel free to comment and add suggestions for other DRP Action Team members.
Feel-good slumber parties. Invite Action Team members to a
treat your body right
night. Serve healthy snacks such as popcorn drizzled with agave nectar and cinnamon and good-for-you drinks such as orange-mangomocktails.
Wrap your hair in towels and smear cold cream or mud masques on your face. Give each other manicures and pedicures. Let it all go and have a good time!Magazine collages. Let's face it: magazines with air-brushed supermodels on the covers can often make us feel bad about our own physiques. Yet sometimes you'll find phrases and photos in magazines that can help you create a positive body image collage. A good example is L'Oreal's
Because You're Worth It.
Be creative. Mount your collages on neon paper. With the permission of store managers/owners and school administration, post them along with your DRP body image cards. Be sure to always use environmentally-friendly tape that will not damage public property and put the Dressing Room Project URL (www.thedressingroomproject.org) on each collage you post so that people will remember the project. Who knows, maybe your efforts will motivate others to start an Action Team, too.
Celebrate
Love Your Body Day
on October 18 by screening films such asReal Women Have Curves.
If you have questions on getting permission to show the film to a large audience, we can help you get the information you need.Get a group together and learn a fun physical activity such as a dance or exercise routine. Loving your body means taking good care of it. And that includes eating well and exercising!!
Strike up discussions or debates about body image in our society: media, music, and literature. Lauren Greenfield's HBO documentary
Thin
is a good one to watch with a smaller group of people (this way, everyone gets a chance to give their own thoughts about the film).Talk about eating disorders and what you can do to prevent them. Gather information from www.nationaleatingdisorders.org.
Be Well and Be Happy.
~Danielle Travali
Advisory Board member, EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 4:23 PM 0 comments
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July 15, 2009
Reflections on The Dressing Room Project!
Hi there. This is Mimi Kates, creator of The Dressing Room Project.
Sometimes I am awed by how this movement has grown since I first hatched the idea and began taking social change action along with teenage girls in Vermont nearly a decade ago. (That's me, the third 'girl' from the right.)
If I had looked into a crystal ball back then and seen thousands of people printing out our positive body image cards and almost 200 Action Teams around the US, Canada, Europe and West Africa I'm sure I would have been more than a little surprised (and delighted!)
If you've just discovered The Dressing Room Project, we're glad you found us!
In Sisterhood,
*Mimi Kates
Director EWP & The Dressing Room ProjectPosted by The Dressing Room Project at 11:12 AM 4 comments
Labels: girls, positive body image, social change action, women
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March 8, 2009
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Videos We Love
One of our EWP Advisory Board members offers this suggestion for positive body image videos:
http://www.youthnoise.com/MyCauseIs/showcase.php?cause_id=161&act=1
Youthnoise is a youth activist's dream site. It's a place to explore issues you care about and take action with other young people around the world.
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Special Offer - 5 Button Collection
Our March Special Offer is a 5 button collection for $10 (A $15 value.)
All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States and a Free Sample of rose scented body butter with your purchase of $10 or more.
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New Cards!
Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! March Cards.
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February 4, 2009
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Where We Are
We now have 169 registered Dressing Room Project Action Teams in the US, Canada, Ireland, the UK and West Africa!
In the US, we only need 5 more states: Arkansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Wyoming. Check out our updated map.
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Heart
Shirt Special Offer Extended
Our
Worry About the Size of your Heart...
T-shirt is still on sale for $16 through at least the end of February.All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States and a Free Sample of rose scented body butter with your purchase of $10 or more.
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Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! February Cards.
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January 6, 2009
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Valentine Special
Treat yourself or some other special person to our
Worry about the size of your heart, not the size of your body
t-shirt, available in sizes small through 2X at a 20% discount for a limited time.Valentine Special price is $16 (regularly $20.)
All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States and a Free Sample of rose scented body butter with your purchase of $10 or more.
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You'd Be So Pretty If... - Dara Chadwick
Dara Chadwick is a freelance journalist, mother and activist working to boost body image in the next generation of women.
She says,
I grew up listening to my mom bemoan everything from the size of her thighs to the shape of her eyes. So you can imagine my dismay the first time someone exclaimed,
You look just like your mother!
Inspired to try and help other mothers find ways of encouraging their daughters to feel good about their bodies, Dara wrote a book which will be available in May of 2009 called You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies -- Even When We Don't Love Our Own.
For more about Dara and her upcoming book, check out http://www.youdbesoprettyif.com
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New Cards!
Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! January Cards.
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December 2, 2008
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Who's Who of American Women
A great big thank you to Marquis Who's Who, publishers of
Who's Who of American Women
for acknowledging our work through their recent generous gift to EWP of this year's special edition.This volume celebrates 50 years of honoring America's most notable women and will be a wonderful resource for us. We heartily recommend it for high school and college libraries. For more info, please visit
http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/products/awprodinfo.asp
To take advantage of a special 25% offer for friends of EWP & The Dressing Room Project, contact Karen at karen.bloom@marquiswhoswho.com
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StickerSisters.com - Ariel Fox
StickerSisters.com strives to empower girls around the world through stickers, shoelaces, magnets, and other products with girl-positive messages.
Creator Ariel Fox says,
I started Sticker Sisters at the end of eighth grade after the worst year of my life. Middle school can be a breeding ground for cliques and back-stabbing. After completing those horrible years, I decided I wanted to do something to help girls feel better about themselves.
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GoodShop for the Holidays
We won't ask you to choose between making a donation to EWP or using your money for holiday gifts. You can shop at stores through GoodShop.com and support EWP at the same time!
Just select Emerging Women Projects as your charity and retailers donate up to 37% to us. Over 800 retailers from Amazon to Zappos are offering money saving coupons at Goodshop this holiday season.
You can also shop for DRP products at our own Special Offers page. All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States and a Free Sample of rose scented body butter with your purchase of $10 or more.
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New Cards!
Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! December Cards.
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November 6, 2008
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hangPROUD.com - Diane Prefontaine and Carla Alpert
hangPROUD.com is an exclusive place where girls and women can connect to find inspiration, build friendships and learn how to refocus their inner dialog to live a powerful and meaningful life.
Co-founders Diane Prefontaine (left) and Carla Alpert (right) founded PROUD Girls Inc. in March 2007 because of their shared passion and mission to change the lives of girls and women across the globe.
They encourage women to embrace their unique beauty and individual strengths and to use their power to make significant differences in their lives, communities and the world.
The site offers a MySpace-style community complete with their unique PROUDradio feature where members can create playlists and listen to tunes as they interact. (Dressing Room Project founder, Mimi Kates is among the musicians featured and hangPROUD also recently published an illuminating article about her.)
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Holiday Season Special - Free Body Butter
We've teamed up with EmuOilNaturally.com to offer you a Free Sample of rose scented Body Butter with your purchase of $10 or more from our Special Offers page while supplies last.
All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States too. What a deal!
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Link to Us
Now you can easily link to TheDressingRoomProject.org, so go to it! Visit our new banner page and add us to your web site or blog to help spread the word. We appreciate it and the women and girls you help to discover us will thank you.
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New Cards!
Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! November Cards This month’s collection features designers from Hawaii, New York, Tennessee, Vermont and California.
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September 1, 2008
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Welcome to Ojibwe Girls
One of our newest DRP Action Teams is a group of girls from the Bad River Tribe of Ojibwe Indians in Northern Wisconsin. We welcome you and look forward to your input! Click here to learn more about the Ojibwe.
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Special Offers
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Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! September Cards
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August 7, 2008
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DRP Supporter Spotlight - Womansong
Womansong is a dynamic 75 woman chorus which promotes unity and social change. Proceeds from concerts fund their New Start program which helps women in transition.
Two Womansong members, Jean Cassidy and Va Boyd, pleasantly surprised us by purchasing an ad for The Dressing Room Project in the concert program for an upcoming performance. We thank you both for this thoughtful gift!
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Dancing from the Heart - Jo Cobbett and Colleen Perry
Dancing from the Heart classes are the combined effort of Jo Cobbett and Colleen Perry in Santa Monica, California. Using dance and writing, they help women to rediscover their bodies
as the source of divine pleasure.
Jo Cobbett has been leading groups in Los Angeles and around the world since 1995. Trained in a variety of therapeutic modalities, her passion is creative expression and she offers weekly
ecstatic dance
classes.
Colleen Perry is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose mission is to care for, nurture, and enhance the self worth of women. She envisions a world where women feel joyful about living their lives knowing that their beauty and power lies within.
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Better than Barbie
Check out this article about previous Sisters in Beauty Rebellion honoree, Denise DiJoseph and The Doll Project.
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New Cards!
Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! August Cards
Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with
subscribe-What's New!
in the subject.
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July 3, 2008
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We're Non Profit of the Month!
'We believe beauty and wellness go hand in hand... With your senses soothed and your spirit calmed, you will discover what beauty comes with serenity.' - Sensibilities Spa
EWP & The Dressing Room Project have been selected as Non Profit of the Month by Sensibilities Spa in Asheville, NC. They will display our information and encourage their customers to make donations at the store during the month of July.
If you're local to Asheville, consider stopping in and showing your support! Sensibilities will offer discount coupons on their products and services to all who donate and will match total donations for the month.
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Women Quotes Needed
We're collecting inspirational quotes by women for a Book of Days calendar project. Each page will have a daily Dressing Room Project Card and a poignant, uplifting or amusing quote. If you have a favorite quote to share, please email us with
Quote
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Demandit.org - Bethany Brownholtz
Bethany Brownholtz is a young woman committed to discouraging the objectification of women in advertising and helping connect concerned activists. She created this social change web site when she was a college student. Her tag line is
Demand Reality. Demand Respect.
On
Bethany's Blacklist
she offers examples of particularly disrespectful advertisements with a link underneath each to contact the company responsible and let them know what you think.I feel that our culture has gone too far. I've had it with sexually explicit ads saturated with pressures to be thin and to be conventionally beautiful
, says Bethany.We need to think about the implications of these images for women, and men too. Media literacy is so important. Media is everywhere and we need to learn to be discerning.
Warning: Some material on this site may be shocking or offensive. The selected advertisements are intended to make us think and to initiate discussion and social change action. Not recommended for those under the age of 13 (although most featured ads have appeared in readily accessible magazines or in public places.)
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New Cards!
Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! July Cards
Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with
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in the subject.
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June 5, 2008
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Oprah’s
O
Magazine - June issueSeen this month's
O
Magazine? The cover proclaims,We're starting a Beauty Revolution!
Great idea! But don't look now, Oprah, the revolution has not only already been started... it's in full swing!We certainly love Oprah and all that she has done for women, but long before Oprah's Beauty Revolution and Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, many smaller organizations and inspired individuals have been hard at work on the front lines to help shift cultural attitudes towards beauty!
Most of us just don't have the marketing resources of a large corporation like Unilever (Dove's parent company) or those of Oprah to make ourselves known to the world. So, each month EWP & The Dressing Room Project will be honoring one of our Sisters in Beauty Rebellion! Know someone who deserves to be acknowledged? We'd like to hear from you!
Want to help tell the world about The Dressing Room Project? Go ahead! Add a link to your web site, brag about us on a blog or message board, send DRP eCards & post our Free Printable DRP cards!
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Love Your Body Show - Sara Yates
This month we'd like to introduce you to Sara Yates, an artist who created the Love Your Body Show celebrating body diversity. She says expressive art helped her to heal from anorexia. Sara is now compiling a book of artwork and writing called Making Peace with the Body and is accepting submissions.
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DRP Action Teams: Only 7 states to go!
We now have over 100 DRP Action Teams!
We need Teams in 7 more states in the US to have all 50 states: Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Dakota & Wyoming. Register as an Action Team Coordinator and help us reach this goal by the end of the year!
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E-Cards are back!
Our apologies that the Send an E-Card feature was not operational for a bit. It's now working again. Please do let us know if you encounter any problems with the site. We can't fix it if we don't know it's broken!
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New Cards!
Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! June Cards
Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with
subscribe-What's New!
in the subject.
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May 2, 2008
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Saving Our Sisters
EWP & The Dressing Room Project are proud to join forces with Peaceoholics to present an event for 150 at-risk teen girls in Washington DC. The Saving Our Sisters Summit will take place on May 21st and include speakers, interactive arts and workshops on self esteem, violence prevention and more.
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The Doll Project
Here's an inspired pilot program we support: The Doll Project is a Barbie makeover program designed to promote girls' self exploration and self expression.
Under the guidance of The Doll Project creator, Denise DiJoseph, girls will have the opportunity to use art materials to recreate donated Barbie dolls in a way that reflects who they are.
Denise, an artist and concerned activist, says The Doll Project is
an empowerment program to show the girls how to be uniquely individual and not a carbon copy of the idealistic image.
Her first programs in September '08 will be offered free to girls in homeless shelters.
Want to help? Mail your unwanted Barbies IN ANY CONDITION to:
Denise DiJoseph
The Doll Project
3 Ravine Road
Frazer, PA 19355-1941Tell her the folks at The Dressing Room Project sent you!
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Mother's Day Idea
Here's a Mother's Day idea you can feel good about: Buy your Mother's Day gift online through the stores at GoodShop. Select Emerging Women Projects as your charity and participating stores will donate a percentage of the sale to us! (You can use Goodshop any time you need to make purchases online.)
You can also use Goodsearch as your internet search engine and they will donate a penny a search to the charity of your choice. We appreciate it. (Every penny counts!)
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New Cards!
Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! May Cards
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April 8, 2008
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We will be exhibiting at Time For Our Power, a women's conference in June featuring Jane Fonda, Starhawk, Julia
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April Special Offer
Cute little DRP magnets are here! 8 assorted magnets for just $10.
You can still order packs of 100 assorted DRP buttons. Fundraise for your organization, school or girls' group. Sell these at $3 each for a profit of $150.
Free Shipping on Special Offers in the US. International orders, please contact us prior to ordering.
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Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! April Cards
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DRP Spotlight
Thank you to our recent Dressing Room Project card designers
in North Carolina & Vermont.
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March 1, 2008
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Welcome to Alisa Fliss of HBO's documentary
Thin
!We're excited to announce that Alisa Fliss from the Emmy nominated HBO documentary
Thin
has joined us to help in the creation of our Eating Disorders Resource for Families & Friends. Alisa is a courageous, beautiful and inspiring young woman. We are honored to work with her. If you are recovering/recovered from an Eating Disorder and would like to contribute from your experience by filling out our Questionnaire, email us withRequest Questionnaire
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Special Offers
Finally! We now have the REMOVABLE DRP Card stickers that many of you have requested. These cards can be safely posted & removed/reused on any surface and leave no residue. See all of our current Special Offers. All Special Offers include FREE SHIPPING in the US. (International orders, please contact us first.)
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DRP Spotlight
New York: The Manhattanville College DRP Action Team, in conjunction with the Muslim Student Association, sponsored a discussion panel about body image across cultures. It included a screening of the documentary Killing Us Softly, a film on the effects of media/advertising on female body image.
Every seat was filled and some people were standing! We were so happy to sponsor this event.
~ Danielle Travalli, Manhattanville DRP Action Team Coordinator
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January 9, 2008
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NEDAW is Coming!
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week begins February 24th. Want to add a little fun to your NEDAW activities? We're offering packs of 100 Dressing Room Project buttons in assorted designs for $150.00 or packs of 50 buttons for $95.00 with FREE Shipping in the US. (International orders, please contact us first.) All orders must be received by February 4th to assure delivery before NEDAW.
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(click to enlarge)Dressing Room Project Spotlight
Asheville, North Carolina: T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating thecenternc.org presented
Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful - Come As You Are
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New Cards
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September 30, 2007
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New DRP Article
Read an article written by EWP's Founder and Director, Mimi Kates, in this month's issue of WNC Woman Magazine.
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Walking Our Talk
We appreciate the input of our astute online store shoppers who pointed out that some of our shirts were not available larger than a size 12. Thanks to you, we have remedied the situation. Now all our apparel is offered in up to a size 2x. Our
Love Yourself
T-shirt is available in up to a size 4x!
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July 26, 2007
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Where we are
Check out our new DRP Action Teams Map!
Thanks to you, we now have 81 Teams around the US, Canada and Ireland.
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New Cards
You can now download and print new DRP Cards.
We'll be offering different cards periodically.
Check back often!
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New Shirt
The Dressing Room Project online store is offering a new
You Are Beautiful!
women's tank top for $17.99
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June 28, 2007
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We're in Venus Diva!
The Dressing Room Project was featured in the June 2007 edition of Venus Diva Online Magazine!
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Our Eating Disorders Project
Are you someone who is recovering/has recovered from an eating disorder?
Would you like to help us with a new project?
In response to the many requests we've received, we're creating a personal resource for people who are concerned about how to help a friend/loved one with an eating disorder.
To contribute from your experience, please e-mail your answers to these two questions and include your first name, age and state/province.
- What were the most helpful things anyone ever said/did to motivate you to start (and continue) your recovery?
- What was least helpful? (what you would tell concerned friends/family to avoid saying/doing)
Any other comments/stories are welcome.
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The Dressing Room Project is an initiative of Emerging Women Projects
a non profit organization for teen girls’ empowerment.
