"...a little kindness can go a long way."~Caitlan Boyle, Operation Beautiful
I was getting dressed this morning and the Today Show was on TV. I usually just it have the Today Show for the background noise. But this time they had a story that actually caught my attention. There was this story about a young lady who wanted to put out a powerful message to all the young girls and women everywhere.
She believed that there were too many negative body images for girls. And because of these messages, a lot of girls and women were suffering from their own negative body images. So she decided to be proactive and put out positive messages in public areas for women and girls to read. For example, she'd write positive messages on sticky notes and places them on mirrors in public restrooms. The notes would say, "You are beautiful!"
How cool is that?
She also blogs about this important message and has a website called Operation Beautiful. And this random act of kindness has taken off and now others participate and leave inspirational messages all over the place for women and girls to read.
When she was asked by the reporter why did she create this website/blog. She responded, "Because a little kindness can go a long way." How simple and sweet and yet, her message is extremely powerful. Here's to girl power!
www.operationbeautiful.com
About Me
- Sherita
- I'm a busy mom of two very active boys and and married to a wonderful husband and love of my life. I work in social services. But what's really awesome, is that I can blend my love the law and working with people with disabilities. But my true passion is writing, which helps me make sense of my world.
For the love of flowers
I have recently discovered my love for taking pics of flowers. This was taken in a small garden in Indiana...
1 comment:
Great message...I love the post-its!
You know it never ceases to amaze me that our society has been trying to combat the message that women get about being thin. You'd think that after all this time we'd be a lot more confident about who we are and how God made us. This goes to show you that some things are just ingrained on our culture and may never change. Each new generation needs a champion to help keep people aware of those things we can become complacent about and she's no different... guess we're slowly changing the world one scale at a time.
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