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Hey all! I'm Courtney Macavinta, co-author of the best-selling book for teen girls RESPECT and founder of Respect Rx, which is devoted to empowering girls, women and their advocates to boost self-respect, sisterhood and social change in their lives—and our world.
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Be wise to the unREAL(ities)

As women and girls our lives can become ruled by unrealistic images and ideals—what we call unREAL(ities):

#1 Pressure to compete with our peers, to make the grade and to compare ourselves to others. This pushes us to try to be like everyone else except the REAL us. For example, 74% of girls say they are under pressure to please everyone (Girls Inc.).

#2 Packaging is the focus—from celeb magazines to reality TV and the Web—we're encouraged to invest too much time and attention into our outside appearance and material assets to get attention. This leads to negative body image and an empty feeling inside. We are getting the message that: "you're nobody until everybody on the planet loves your look."

#3 Perfection and narrow ideals of beauty, success and power makes us feel that we aren't good enough and that nothing we do is good enough.

In reality, our REAL potential is limitless and so are the opportunities in life. Let's encourage each other to develop our REAL assets and gifts which are boundless and come from the inside! See the Getting REAL Tour.

 

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