CMU Students Encourage Healthy Body Image, Mental Health With Photo Shoot

....“Not being OK doesn’t mean you’re weak. For me it means you’re strong and brave to ask for help to tell people ‘hey I’m actually not OK.”

Just last week she spoke at an event that kicked off Mental Health Awareness Week.

The Mid-American Conference puts on the mental health awareness week every year this year’s topic was body image,” organizer Taylor Colotti said....

....“That, along with a social media blast featuring athletes feeling comfortable in their own skin and celebrating their bodies, spreading the word on helpful mental health resources....

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Bethany`s Notes: Consider doing something like CMU did and allowing student-athletes to have a wall dedicated to saying that encourage postive body image self-talk. You could do this with almost any topic to keep the information relevant and regular.