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Women's Services and Resources

The Body Project

Mission

Empower BYU women with the tools to combat society’s unrealistic appearance ideal and embrace all the wonderful aspects of themselves and others and focus on reaching their full potential while at BYU and throughout their lives.

Vision

BYU women will resist cultural pressures to adhere to the appearance ideal in their daily lives and increase their confidence and body satisfaction.

Come participate in The Body Project — a group of students working together to decrease adherence to the appearance ideal and increase body acceptance!

THE BODY PROJECT is a fun and interactive program designed to empower women to challenge unrealistic cultural messages about the ideal appearance and develop healthy body acceptance. Participants will have the opportunity to critique the appearance ideal through verbal, written, and behavioral exercises. Through these exercises, women learn the costs of pursuing appearance ideals, ways to combat them, and the basics of body activism. Participants will leave this training with skills to promote body acceptance of diverse body shapes and sizes, counter negative appearance talk in their daily lives, and embrace all of the wonderful non-appearance-related aspects of themselves and others.

Participation requires a commitment to attend two, two-hour sessions led by peer leaders in a comfortable environment. Sign up for The Body Project Here:

Sign Up for the Body Project
Meet Our Peer Leaders!
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Brooklyn Kitchen

"I am so grateful for the Body Project in helping me feel better connected to who I am. It is incredible to share this experience with other women who struggle with similar things, helping me to feel less alone. I will forever be grateful for the Body Project in helping me to overcome the appearance ideal and live my best life!"
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Genesis Rushton

“The Body Project has helped me develop an awareness of both myself and other women. While each of us is unique, we share fears and struggles as well as a desire to be loved and accepted as we are. I've come to know that I am not alone in my struggles, and neither are you.”
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Hannah Whiting

“It is so empowering to be able to discuss ways to overcome the appearance ideal with peers and to discover most people think the same way you do. The Body Project allowed me to feel like I wasn’t alone.”
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