Celebrate Your Body Week

Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), the Coalition for Overcoming Problem Eating/Exercise (C.O.P.E.) and Recreational Sports is sponsoring Celebrate Your Body Week February 15-19.

"Celebrate Your Body" Day and "Celebrate EveryBODY Week", is our twist on National Eating Disorder Awareness Month (February). Our week-long event features activities to promote positive body image, and education about disordered eating, over-exercise, and healthy eating for MEN and WOMEN. Unfortunately, poor body image has become 'the standard' in our country: 75% of adult women and 54% of adult men are dissatisfied with their appearance.

We invite you to take the first step toward changing these statistics by:

1) Joining the Facebook page Celebrate Every Body Week 2010 and inviting all your friends to become fans!

2) Attending the following events:
Feb. 1-18: "Celebrate Your Body" Art Exhibit @ IMU Gallery. I.U. students showcase their art around themes of body image, beauty, and disordered eating.

Feb. 15: "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" free movie about men and exercise/steroid use- 9pm @ SRSC Auditorium

Feb. 16: "America the Beautiful" free movie free about women, body image and the media- 9pm @ SRSC Auditorium http://americathebeautifuldoc.com/

Feb. 17: Panel discussion about body image and disordered eating/exercise with Miss Indiana, Nicole Pollard, Rec Sports fitness specialist Chris Arvin, and body image/eating disorder expert Jan Taylor-Schultz, L.C.S.W. - 8pm @ SRSC Auditorium

Feb. 18: “Celebrate Your Body Day!” – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., free activities promoting positive body image and information about disordered eating/exercise at SRSC, HPER, Wells Library, School of Education and Wright Quad Food Court

Feb. 15-19: "Great Jeans Giveaway" - drop off the jeans (or other clothes, scales, mirrors or magazines) that make you feel negatively about your body (SRSC Lobby and HPER). Clothing will be donated to the Shalom Center.

For more information, go to http://healthcenter.indiana.edu/cope/Home.html and Facebook Page "Celebrate Every Body Week 2010"