Change The Way You See Week Guest Posts
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In celebration of the Operation Beautiful book release, readers + bloggers from all over the world are participating in Change The Way You See, Not The Way You Look Week. Here are their posts on their experiences with body image, healthy balance, and self-confidence:
August 2, 2010 Featured Posts
- Ashley: Why Our Brains May Be to Blame in Struggling to Love Our Bodies
- Jaima: It’s Not About the Weight: Happiness Comes from Within
- Mindy: Learning to Find My Own True Beauty
- Camille: My Body Is Stronger Than I Know
- Maria: Letting Go of Image and Embracing Yourself
- Sharon: Learn to Love and Forgive Yourself
- Lauren: My New Skin: Loving Your Body After Pregnancy
- Amanda: A New Approach to Life
- Ashley: How a Healthy Mind Precedes and Supersedes a Healthy Body
August 3, 2010 Featured Posts
- Liz: How Cooking Changed My Relationship With Food
- Kayla: Why the Number on the Scale Does Not Define Me
- Jen: How Binge Eating Disorder Made My Life Better
- Marci: Choose Happiness and Tune Out the Outside
- Amanda: Cycling My Way To Happiness
- Olivia: Finding Something to be Proud Of
- Lauren: The Journey to Find My Voice
- Laurie: Living Healthy and Trying to Feel It All
- Gabriella: Don’t Let the Media Shape Your Health
- Laura: Stop Feeling So Embarrassed About Yourself!
- Bree: Use Your Own Filter To Get Rid of Negative Self Talk
- Meleah: Love What Your Body Can Do
- Liz: How Feelings Changed the Way I Saw Myself
- Kiersten: Saying "I Feel Fat"
- Lauren: My New Skin: Loving Your Body After Pregnancy
- Laura: Running to Find My Happy Weight
- Cynthia: How Loving Myself Helped Me Share That Love With Others
- Molly: Strong Is The New Skinny
- Elizabeth: How Shifting Perspective Gave Me a New Normal
- Amber: Today I Love My Freckles
- Catherine: How Appreciating What My Body Can Do Gave me Body Confidence
August 4, 2010 Featured Posts
- Marilyn: Marathon Training Helped Me Realize Miles Mean More Than Pounds
- Courtney: 7 Things I’ve Learned About Finding My Happy Weight
- Kelley: Finding Happiness in Growing Up and Learning to be Content
- Faith: Why My Happy Weight is So Much More Than a Number
- Rachel: How Giving up "Skinny" Gave Me My Life Back
- Brandi: An Active Body is a Respected Body
- Whitney: Changing My Relationship with Food
- Tracy: Discovering That I Don’t Need a Mirror to See My True Self
- Ellen: Learning to Love Myself NOW… Not Five Pounds From Now
- Gavriel: How my Mind Changed (and Didn’t) when I Lost Weight
- Jessica: Discovering True Beauty Through Health and Life
- Melissa: How Pregnancy Made Me See My Body as More Than Just a Body – A Vessel!
- Heather: A Cheerleader without Pom-Poms
- Lissi: Learning to Own My Strength
- Sarah: Seeing Myself as Beautiful, One Run at a Time
- Julie: Discovering Worth and Happiness Cannot Be Weighed on a Scale
- Katherine: Learning to Walk in Beauty
- Rosey Rebecca: How Operation Beautiful and Blogging Improved My Self-Image and Confidence
- Ronja: Learn to Love Your Body by Feeling Good Inside
- Katie: Turning an Unhealthy Obsession into a Healthy One
- Sarah: On Self-Confidence and Really Learning to Love Myself
- Rachel: Our Yoga is Beautiful
- Tracy: Finding My True Self by being a Girl, a Woman, a Wife and a Mother
August 5, 2010 Featured Posts
- Therese: How I Began Running For Myself and Not For Others
- Tina: Your Body is Amazing – Top to Bottom
- Sara: I can’t do it all–but I can do something!
- Amanda: Change Your Body to Change Your Mind
- Caitlyn: Respect Your Body with Food
- Daniel: Thinner isn’t Always Healthier… or Happier (A Male Perspective)
- Rachel: The Biggest Surprises After Weight Loss
- Astrid: I Am My Passions, Not My Achievements
- Maria: Body Image – How the Introduction of Television has Changed the Fijian Culture
- Katie: Understanding Your Body Without the Scale
- Katherine: Learning to Love My Body As It Is, With Baby Steps
- Marissa: My Personal Journey Toward Greater Self Love
- Amy: Letting Go of Wedding Day Weight Pressure
- TheHealthyApron: Ignore Celebrity Standards and Honor Your Health
- Katie: How Ignoring the Number on the Scale Helped Lose Weight and Become Healthy
- Meleah: Love What Your Body Can Do
- Elizabeth: Is It Worth It To Get Rid of My Poochy Stomach?
- Stacy: The Power of Positivity
- Liz: How Better Food and Exercise Transformed My Mood
- Mandiee: The Beauty in Discovering Who You Are
- Gillian: Choosing How to See
- Kirsty: Time to Move Forward
- Michelle: My Journey to Love Food Again
- Jill: I Resolve to be Happy One Good Decision at a Time
- Stephanie: The Cinderella Syndrome and How a Pair of Shoes Can Change Your Life
August 6, 2010 Featured Posts
- Annie: Battling Negative Thoughts with Positive Ones
- Stephanie: Teaching Our Children to Love Their Bodies
- Jaime: I Don’t Dare to Compare — My Body is Good Enough For Me
- Kate: Becoming a Healthy Goal-Getter
- Kristi: Learning to Feel Good in My Own Skin
- Jamie: You Aren’t Broken, The Mirror Is
- Becky: Learning How My Body Works
- Julie: Raising A Beautifully Healthy Daughter
- Bonnie: Redefining "Fit" From a New Perspective
- Carolyn: You Are Worth Taking Care Of!
- Ashley: Running Towards a Positive Self-Image…
- Alicia: Ten Ways You Can Support Operation Beautiful
- Katie: How To Be Your Own Best Friend
- Alison: How Running Changed What I Saw in the Mirror
- Monique: Deciding That I am Worth It
- Monica: One Size Does NOT Fit All, Learning to Utilize My Body to Live a Happy Life!
- Erin: It’s My Party and I’ll Change My Life if I Want To
- Cati: A Beginner (Again): Setting Goals and Starting Over
- Lauren: Growing Up and Accepting Myself
- Sarah: How Rejecting the Scale Helped in my Recovery from an Eating Disorder
- Stormy: A Letter From Your Body
- Nichole: Loving The Person In The Mirror
- Michal: Get Inspired by Operation Beautiful
August 7, 2010 Featured Posts
- Alysa: How Running and Yoga Began My Healing Process
- Jennifer: Learning to Let Go
- Annie: Knocking Down Body Barriers
- Leah: Running with Confidence
- Stephanie, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Myself
- Corey: How Small Changes in Language and Can Lead to a Big Change in Self-Image
- Colleen: “Skinny” Doesn’t Equal “Happy”: How My Battle with Anorexia Brought Me Back to Life
- Karen: Getting Stronger, Literally & Figuratively
- Meredith: Believing in Your Beauty
- Emily: Overcoming Disordered Thinking
- Lindsay: Nurturing My Inner Beauty
- Caity: From Negative to Positive: Pledging to Improve My Body Image
- Kelly: My Body Can…
- Neely: Finding Ways to Love What I Have
- Iris: If I Lose Five Pounds, I Will Become A…
- Sarah: How Loving Food Led Me To a Healthy Life
- Sarah: Seeing the Big Picture
- Anya: Discovering the True Meaning of Beauty
- Alexis: The Journey to Loving Myself Again
- Jennifer: How A 9 Year Old Taught Me To End Fat Talk
- Cyndi: The Long Road to Self-Acceptance
- Keri: A body that my daughter can be proud of
- Mary: A Journey to a Happier and Healthier Lifestyle
- Liza: Seeing My Beauty One Positive Thought at a Time
- Nicole: Seeing My True Self
- Julie: This Movement is Important
- Shannon: But Won’t Oatmeal Make Me Fat?
- Anne: A Dancer’s Body Image
- Jackie: You Are What Makes You Beautiful
- Libby: Learning to Love Yourself
- Heather: Mind and Body Beautiful
- Cait: Happiness and Confidence Are Independent of Looks
- Sarah: Finding Balance in My Life
- Margarita: 28 Lessons I’ve Learned in My 28 Years
- Tracey: To Whom It May Concern: You Rock
- Christie: How to Think Positive
- Ilana: The Green Monster
- Carly: Words Should Build Us Up
- Heather: Running Does a Body, Mind, and Soul Good
August 8, 2010 Featured Posts
- Samantha: Turning Points: Learning to Love What I’ve Got
- Laura: Finding MY Healthy Balance
- Jennifer: How healthy eating and running boosted my confidence!
- Erin: True Friends Show Me My True Self
- Melissa: How comparing myself to others made me forget that I’m already beautiful!
- Katie: Embracing My Own Awesomeness
- Candice: Finding Beauty in my Imperfections
- Freya: Body Hate and How To Overcome It
- Sarah: Making Small Steps Towards Celebrating Yourself, As You Are
- Lea: Live Strong, Stay Strong
- Jan: The deep desire to take care of my health changed my mirror’s reflection
- Sarah: Being Strong in Both Body and Mind
- Dez: A Chubby Girls Nightmare: "But you have such a pretty face!”
- Lisa: Follow Your Dreams For Good Health
- Megan: How Learning to Take a Compliment Changed My Outlook
- Jackie: You Are What Makes You Beautiful
- Angie: Weighs in on Negative Self Talk
- Kimberly: Pregnancy Taught Me To Honor My Body
- Alexa: You Are Beautiful!
- Wendy: Raising Two Girls
- Marilou: How I won my fight against the mirror
- Jen: Running Makes Me Feel Free
- Kimberly: Pregnancy Taught Me To Honor My Body
- Errign: Finding Contentment in Myself
- Andrea: How losing control meant gaining balance
- Kristin: Letting go of the girl that use to be, embracing the beauty of who I am today!
- Samantha: Learning that beauty and value are intrinsic, not numerical
- Kaitlin: How Changing Mindsets Changed Everything
- Maggie: I am Strong and Fragile and Unique
- Kiersten: Learning to Love My Body- One Part at a Time
- Lindsey: Embrace Yourself Today
- Monica: Going From a Food Diet to a Positive Thinking Binge
- Robyn: How Running Made Me See My Body In a Whole New Light
- Catie: A Challenge That Everyone Is Capable Of Doing
- Kristina: Running Gave Me Confidence
- Jaclyn: How Coaching Has Allowed Me to Help Young Girls… and Myself
- Laura: Changing Perspectives: Skinny to Healthy
- Katie: My Physical Weight Loss Meant Nothing Until a Psychological Weight Was Lifted
- Sana: How Seeing my Real Face Made Me Feel Beautiful
- Heather: I Learned to Love Myself After 14 Years of Disordered Eating
- Heather: How changing the way I saw helped me embrace true health
- Andrea: Making peace with being myself
- Amber: I’m not perfect, but I’m worth it!
- Caitlin: How Running Gave Me Confidence
- Michelle: Size is Temporary, Feeling Good is Forever
- Melissa: How I’m learning to just be me and not a number on a scale
- Michelle: Stop the Fat Talk and Love Yourself
- Ali: A new mom’s perspective on sharing the message
- Clare: Remembering a Love of Food and Goodbye to Anorexia
- Rebecca: Operation Beautiful–> Operation Rebecca?!
- Janna: Positive Affirmations Can Set You Free
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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
Caitlin-
Thank you for the wonderful opportunity to write a post for your blog!
Lauren
i came to school one day, expecting to have a horrible long week. but when i came up the stairs at to my locker. someone left a post-it-note.
i said; ” YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.”
thank you to whoever put that there, it made my year.
and thank you cailtin, for this whole thing (:
I am a senior in high school and I have a friend who does youth ministry with the middle schoolers in my hometown after coming across this website and just seeing them go through the lessions has changed me.
now me and my friend post notes all over school in the bathrooms and on random car mirrors in our student parking lots. I believe that they can save someones live. you never truly know what someone is going through. God works in wonderful ways. THANK YOU FOR THIS WEBSITE! 
God bless all you beautiful girls!
-Dezaray <3