The Joyful Body Project was founded to combat the negative effects of bodily shame on our culture, our community institutions, and our individual relationships with self and others.

 

 

Shame about our physical bodies has a deep impact our culture's harmful misunderstandings of issues related to race, gender, sexuality, ability/disabilty, age, beauty, and our relationship with earth/environment/creation.

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Individually, our bodily shame affects our self-esteem, our ability to acknowledge and pursue what we desire, our ability to have compassion for ourselves and others, and our ability to feel and express joy.

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The Joyful Body Project