BodyTalk: Empowering our Kids in a Body Conscious World

Learn how you can detect and counter pressures that drive perfectionism and create unrealistic expectations for our children and ourselves.

A Chance to Heal Foundation and Springside School will host an important event for parents, educators, coaches, and other community leaders who influence young people. The program speaker, Courtney Martin is author of the book Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women, an eye opening look at twenty-first century culture and its impact on women. The book has been called "a hardcover punch in the gut" by Arianna Huffington and "a smart and spirited rant that makes for thought provoking reading" by the New York Times. Courtney's journalistic work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, among other outlets, and she is a frequent commentator on television and radio, including The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and The O’Reilly Factor.

This event will provide practical tools for strengthening resilience and preventing eating disorders by:

- Developing skills for encouraging positive body image
- Learning what to say and what not to say

- Understanding how to promote self-esteem and confidence
- Learning to recognize "red flag" behaviors