Exploring Positive Body Image and Food Culture at Camp
Explore themes surrounding body image and food culture at camp, understanding how these impact campers and staff. Learn to make positive shifts in camp culture, addressing disordered eating and emotional eating. Discover the intersection of food and body image, challenges faced, promoting body positivity, and practicing intuitive eating. Evaluate your camp's food and body image culture for a healthier environment.
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CREATING POSITIVE BODY IMAGE & FOOD CULTURE AT CAMP By Caroline Rothstein and Natalie Rothstein
Identify themes around food and body image at camp Understand how camp culture contributes in both negative and positive ways to relationships around food and body image Session Objectives Troubleshoot how to make positive shifts around food and body image in camp culture
How does camp culture impact campers and staff experiences with food and body image?
Definitions Body Image: the mental picture one forms of one s body as a whole, including its physical characteristics and one s attitudes towards these characteristics. Food: any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth. Disordered Eating: Eating and body image-related behaviors that are similar to those associated with an eating disorder but to a less severe degree that is not diagnosable as an eating disorder. Some of those behaviors include: binging, restriction, excessive exercise, obsessive calorie counting, food related anxiety, rigid mindsets around specific foods and self worth highly connected to body image and weight. Emotional Eating: Eating primarily in conjunction with or response to feelings or emotional - both positive and/or negative. Eating Disorder: Umbrella term to define mental illnesses that include anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, over-exercising, orthorexia, and other mental illnesses where one s behavioral and symptomatic relationships to food and body image are severely compromised. Definition sources include: American Psychological Association, Google Dictionary, and facilitators expertise.
Intersection of Food and Body Image
Themes and Challenges Around Body Image and Food at Camp
Body Positivity and What Does It Look Like at Camp?
What does your camp s culture around food and body image look like?
What are specific things you d like to improve regarding food and body image at your camp?
How do you plan to apply new strategies and approaches to body and food culture at camp this summer?
Additional Resources: Articles: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/contemporary-psychoanalysis-in-action/201402/disordered-eating-or- eating-disorder-what-s-the http://www.nypress.com/news/local-news/how-summer-camp-made-me-who-i-am-JFNP1020180126180129963 https://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/a18730651/body-acceptance-eating-disorder/ https://www.carolinerothstein.com/wp-content/uploads/How-I-Stopped-Obsessing-Over-Food.pdf Books: When Food Is Love by Geneen Roth Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance by Rosie Molinary The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Websites: https://www.intuitiveeating.org/ https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/
Facilitator Contact Information: Caroline Rothstein Website: www.carolinerothstein.com Email: caroline@carolinerothstein.com Natalie Rothstein Website: www.nrpsychotherapy.com Email: natalie@nrpsychotherapy.com
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