Realize Your Beauty

Realize Your Beauty is honored to be included as a featured performer at this year's Indwelling event, hosted by the Women's Therapy Center Institute and Endangered Bodies NY. This year's Indwelling honors Dr. Leonore Tiefer, author, educator, researcher, therapist, and activist. Featured speakers and performers at this year's event include Realize Your Beauty, Poet Lily Meyers (bio) and Samantha Levine, formerly from Mayor Bloomberg's admin., creator the NYC Girls Project.

The event details are as follows:

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Our over exposure to shocking and inappropriate stories in the media and online, makes it easy to become desensitized- so much so that their images rarely shock me anymore. 

What I saw yesterday was an exception.  I was outraged when I received an email from Endangered Bodies New York, a worldwide activist group of which Realize Your Beauty is part.
 
The email was a call to action for an app that has been recently released.  A “Plastic Surgery App” recommended for ages 9 and up and targeted towards children.
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Mayor Bloomberg has become the first mayor in the country to launch a campaign entirely focused on raising self-esteem and healthy body-image in children, and we are absolutely thrilled!  This wonderful campaign echos the mission of Realize Your Beauty, encouraging children to see themselves as beautiful, just as they are.

The campaign features a PSA and a series of images that encourage children to look at the beauty of their character, skills and attributes- not physical appearance.

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Realize Your Beauty sends a huge video "Thank You" to See Beautiful for all they do to spread beauty in this world!

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For more information on this wonderful organization, please visit: www.seebeautiful.com

Realize Your Beauty is thrilled to announce that we will be taking part in the Girl Scouts of Greater New York 100th Anniversary Bridge Crossing Event. This once-in-a-lifetime event will celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouting in NYC!

Event Information: Sunday, June 2, 2013. 11am-5pm, Randall’s Island. For more information or to sign up to participate, please visit: www.girlscoutsnyc.org/events/100-100th-anniversary-bridge-crossing

Realize Your Beauty is proud to be participating in National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW) 2013. This year, we will be participating in the form of a social media campaign on facebook and twitter (@bodylove_ryb), as well as a performance and workshop aimed at spreading awareness.

From the NEDAW website: “NEDAwareness Week is the largest education and outreach effort on eating disorders in the United States, taking place February 24-March 2, 2013. The aim of NEDAwareness Week is to increase…Read more

Realize Your Beauty was recently featured on the Foster Care program on Brooklyn College Radio. 

To hear the interview in it's entirety, check out this link: www.youtube.com/watch

Some highlights:

min 2:30 Some reasons why RYB uses Theatre Arts to get our
message across.
min 3:24-4:30 Explains why RYB works specifically with Children/Adolescents.
min 7:53 How to set up a workshop with RYB.
min 9:30 Shout out to the amazing RYB Cast members!
min 11:15sec A very special story from a recent workshop…Read more

Realize Your Beauty is thrilled to have been invited to speak at the Leadership Conference held by the Mount Vernon Youth Bureau’s Girls Embracing Maturity (GEM) Program. This year's theme is "I Have A Voice In This World" and will be held on November 20, 2012. RYB is very much looking forward to taking part in the event!

Realize Your Beauty is honored to share that we have been selected as the October Non-Profit of the Month by See Beautiful! See Beautiful is a movement that exists to see and spread beauty in this world. We are very humbled to be featured on their site. For more information on See Beautiful, visit: www.seebeautiful.com  To read their lovely write up on Realize Your Beauty, visit: seeabeautifulworld.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-brings-so-much-beauty.html

On Sat., September 1st 2012, Realize Your Beauty held their 1st Annual Fundraising Walk in Central Park, NYC. It was a beautiful day for a 5k walk! The walk signified the end of a month long fundraising event, and it was a great success! We raised nearly $1,600 for our programs from generous family, friends and corporate supporters. We also spent the month raising awareness about Realize Your Beauty and our mission. 

Thank you so much to everyone who made a contribution to this fundraising event, helped… Read more