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You Are Enough Project

In honor of NEDAwareness Week (February 23 - March 1, 2014) two young women, Rose and Ashley, who have both struggled with eating disorders themselves,have collaborated with the project coordinator of NEDA to start theYou Are Enough Project. The basis of the project is for those with and without eating disorders alike. Far too often we compare ourselves to images in magazines; images that have been photoshopped and touched up to the point that the model in the photo doesn’t even look like the model in real life. Anyone with an eating disorder will tell you that the thin ideal of society is not to blame for eating disorders alone; however, the message these images project is not healthy and does contribute to the negative self-image so many of us harbor. 

So together, these young women and the project manager for NEDA have written a letter to be placed in magazines, specifically those in which individuals may experience a higher level of negative self-image due to a large number of photoshopped images. The hope is to inspire individuals to stop comparing themselves to the images in magazines and start loving themselves for who they are.

These women are trying to get as many people as possible to participate. So if you are willing print out this letter, fold it in half, and go to a local store to the magazine aisle and slip the piece of paper in section of the magazine that you feel promotes unattainable standards. These can be advertisements, photoshopped pictures of celebrities, pictures of men or women, anything that may make you, or someone else, feel self-conscious about the way they look. 

This project may not change everyone’s life. Many people may throw out the letter before they read it. However, if this letter changes one person’s life, just one person, then we are making a difference.