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Redefining the meaning + value of beauty in our lives! BR is a nonprofit run by twins Lexie Kite, PhD & Lindsay Kite, PhD. and Lindsay Kite, Ph.D. See more.
Beauty Redefined, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to promoting positive body image and resilience online and through live speaking events, is run by identical twins Lexie Kite, Ph.D. Since establishing Beauty Redefined in 2009, Lexie and Lindsay have become leading experts in the work of body image resilience through research-backed online education available on their website, social media, and th
Beauty ideals have changed over the last 15+ years since we started the nonprofit Beauty Redefined, but rest assured that the path to body image resilience remains clear. Your body is an instrument, not an ornament, and as you see and value yourself as more than a body, the pressure to fit these unrelenting ideals subsides. As always, find our book, “More Than a Body: Your body is an instrument, not an ornament” (HarperCollins 2021) available via hardcover, paper, audiobook and ebook everywhere! It’s linked in our bio and always on sale on Amazon. For a daily practical guide, check out “The Official Workbook for a More Than a Body” on Amazon and linked in bio.
09/09/2024
Hi friends! We’re celebrating our birthday today and wanted to pop back on social media to say thank youuuu for the love this last year! Whether we’ve seen you at a speaking event, read your reviews of our book, met you on the street, or gotten a kind message from you, we’re so grateful. While we’re quiet on social media, we are still promoting body image resilience through limited podcast and media interviews, speaking events, and by working to get More Than a Body and the Official Workbook for More Than a Body to anyone that needs it. And we’re excited to let you know that in addition to our book having already been translated and published in Russian, Ukrainian, and Korean, it will soon be available in Chinese! We hope you are doing great and building those body image resilience muscles to navigate the treacherous, objectifying waters. All the love to you! 💗Lexie and Lindsay
Use our new workbook for yourself or to guide clients, students, youth groups or friends through 6 weeks of practical strategies to build your body image resilience! It's on sale now online in e-book or paperback (including internationally in English via Amazon). Bulk discounts available through our website too!
Find links here: https://www.morethanabody.org/more-than-a-body-book/
01/13/2024
FINALLY the Official Workbook for our book, More Than a Body, is here! Note that this is the only legit workbook to go along with our first book, despite a few knock offs online! The Official Workbook is designed as a companion to More Than a Body to walk you through six weeks of daily practices to build your body image resilience. We’ve written it with a few audiences in mind: Individuals ages 13-110, clinicians like therapists and dietitians, teachers, and coaches or other leaders to use for group body image instruction.
This is the “how to” to the body image resilience framework we’ve been promoting for years. We’re still blown away by how well received our first book has been (three years later!) and we’re so excited to finally have the answer to so many of your requests for a workbook.
Building your body image resilience is a continuous process. It’s not a finish line you cross where the beauty pressures of your environment magically lose all their power. It is a muscle you develop and strengthen over time through deliberate, compassionate strategies that help you reconnect to your whole, embodied self each time you feel yourself start to slip into self-consciousness and shame.
THANK YOU Afor your support of our work and for helping us get it out to all those who need it. Our book is available in paperback on Amazon now at the link below (and we’ll have an e-book version out in the coming weeks)!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CS7LHNBX?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520
09/18/2022
Hi friends! You may have noticed we’ve stepped back from social media (or maybe you haven’t), but we just wanted to confirm we’re still alive and doing fab. I (Lexie, on the right) am visiting Lindsay in NY to celebrate our birthday. And thanks to Amazon for putting our book on sale for our bday!🎉 We’re in rest and recovery mode after 18+ months of truly nonstop effort to make sure everyone knows about our *most important* work to date — our book! We couldn’t be more happy about the warm reception More Than a Body has received and the people it has impacted. We literally check the Amazon and Goodreads every single day and screenshot them for each other. You are all the BEST. If you’re at one of our upcoming speaking events (shout out to University of Arizona on 11/1!) we’ll give you a hug IRL. If you need more of us chatting about body image resilience in your life, search our names (Lexie Kite and Lindsay Kite) in your podcast app because we’ve done a million interviews or listen to our book on audiobook!
03/10/2022
Pssst! The hardcover of More Than a Body by Lexie & Lindsay Kite, PhD is $16 on Amazon right now! The paperback is only $12, too! Read it, love it, pass it along to a friend that needs a body image breakthrough.💗
More Than A Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament More Than A Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament
Visibility *feels* like the highest form of power when your most prized validation comes from being looked at. But the truth is, your visibility doesn't reflect -- or ensure -- your value.
Still, not fitting young, thin beauty ideals or being otherwise “unacceptably visible” can mean you're subject to discrimination and prejudice in employment, leadership and other opportunities, and generally less kindness from strangers. We are all responsible for uprooting these prejudices from our own minds and pushing back when we see unconscious bias at play in our own circles of influence.
For those who aren't actually experiencing (or at risk of experiencing) discrimination that affects your employment, housing, well-being, and other significant parts of your life, please consider that losing your visibility in this objectifying culture might not be as bad as you fear.
Think of your invisibility as a release from a faulty, s*xist value system. It is a forced removal from the endless game of searching for scraps of power in an objectifying culture that was never fully satisfied with your beauty or s*x appeal, and ensured you weren't either, despite all your efforts.
Your invisibility is an invitation to a better, more empowering way of valuing yourself.
Rather than relying on others -- including strangers and onlookers whose view of you is meaningless -- to reflect your supposed value back to you in their approval, your self-worth can become innate, self-directed, and a reflection of you as a whole, thinking, feeling, doing person.
You are more than a body and you always have been, whether or not others choose to see you that way, or see you at all. When you can see more -- in yourself and others -- you can be more.
For more body image inspo from Lexie & Lindsay Kite, PhD, read More Than a Body (available in hard copy, audiobook, and ebook anywhere books are sold here: https://linktr.ee/beauty_redefined) and find more resources at that link or morethanabody.org.
We warned the Dr. Phil team in advance that we weren’t there to argue with influencers, cosmetic surgeons, or beauty lab owners! We were there to offer an alternative view for people who need to know that “fixing” your body doesn’t fix your life in the way we’ve been sold. The missing piece on your path to healing your relationship with your body is body image resilience, and we wrote the book on it! It’s the revolution we all need. We built this model of resilience on the fact that you *will* feel shame at times about how you look and how your body falls short in terms of abilities, health and expectations. That's the nature of having a body -- especially in a s*xist, objectifying culture that places too much value on how women appear. But you don't have to cope with that shame by punishing your body into fitting an arbitrary, unreachable beauty mold you've been prescribed. (That never worked and never lasted, anyway.)
🔥 Those moments of shame can be your spark, your reminder to see more in yourself and your body, and act accordingly. You can come back to your body as your home by choosing to prioritize how you live over how you look. Come back home to your body as your own.
📚Read or listen to More Than a Body by Lexie & Lindsay Kite, PhD for more of this inspo than we could ever post on IG (www.Instagram.com/beauty_redefined) and FB! Find our book (on sale!) and other body image resources here: https://linktr.ee/beauty_redefined
Being on Dr. Phil yesterday was surreal and so exciting. We were genuinely shocked by his sincere and glowing endorsement of More Than a Body! Like full-on goosebumps. We are so grateful for the opportunity to get our work to a huge new audience and for all of you who have supported and shared our stuff along the way!
📺Even though we don't have the official show videos, we DO have recordings of this lovely TV setup, so we'll share a couple clips here and on IG (www.instagram.com/beauty_redefined)Find the show on YouTube TV or more clips on Dr. Phil’s page!
More body image resources, including our book, here: https://linktr.ee/beauty_redefined
02/14/2022
For women who are trying to leave behind body shame and build their body image resilience, it can be hard to explain it all to a partner who doesn't really ✨get it✨, but there are ways to make it easier.
The bottom line is men can be incredible allies and supporters in relationships with women who struggle with body image issues -- but they can also be the opposite and magnify the burden of objectification for their partners.
👉🏼Swipe for our thoughts on how to deal with a partner who puts a damper on your body image breakthroughs.
Links to the book and more body image resources from Lexie & Lindsay Kite, PhD, here: https://linktr.ee/beauty_redefined
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