Blogging Fusion has picked Disordered Times as its blog of the week! Many thanks to the editors at Blogging Fusion for giving this site its coolest honor to date…and for making me blush, but in a good way. 
Remember that National Eating Disorders Awareness Week kicks off on February 22. One of the events I am doing locally will be the third annual Great Jeans Giveaway in good ol’ Casper, Wyoming. (Yes, I do live in the middle of nowhere, and no, I am not offended if you don’t know where Wyoming is. )
I must brag a bit and say that both the poster and the radio PSAs advertising the event this year were all me, baby. I’ve had the fun fortune of writing and recording the PSAs each year, but the poster is a new deal for me. I’m pretty proud of the way it turned out.
The giveaway is a jeans drive that encourages people to clean their closets of jeans they no longer wear and/or jeans that no longer fit. The message is to accept one’s body in the size and shape it is in now instead of striving for the thin ideal. We take pairs of jeans in all sizes in good condition and donate them to a local charity. We also have a number of displays that promote a positive body image. I’ll post pictures from that event, as well as a community panel where I will be one of five presenters on the topic of eating disorders. It should be a fantastic way of educating the public — something I’ve done for many years, but not nearly on this large of a scale before. I am excited and frightened — just as I should be.
Blogging Fusion has picked Disordered Times as its blog of the week! Many thanks to the editors at Blogging Fusion for giving this site its coolest honor to date…and for making me blush, but in a good way.
Remember that National Eating Disorders Awareness Week kicks off on February 22. One of the events I am doing locally will be the third annual Great Jeans Giveaway in good ol’ Casper, Wyoming. (Yes, I do live in the middle of nowhere, and no, I am not offended if you don’t know where Wyoming is.
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I must brag a bit and say that both the poster and the radio PSAs advertising the event this year were all me, baby. I’ve had the fun fortune of writing and recording the PSAs each year, but the poster is a new deal for me. I’m pretty proud of the way it turned out.
The giveaway is a jeans drive that encourages people to clean their closets of jeans they no longer wear and/or jeans that no longer fit. The message is to accept one’s body in the size and shape it is in now instead of striving for the thin ideal. We take pairs of jeans in all sizes in good condition and donate them to a local charity. We also have a number of displays that promote a positive body image. I’ll post pictures from that event, as well as a community panel where I will be one of five presenters on the topic of eating disorders. It should be a fantastic way of educating the public — something I’ve done for many years, but not nearly on this large of a scale before. I am excited and frightened — just as I should be.