Handy-dandy links

Here are a couple of my favorite links to things that promote positive body image:

http://www.beautyredefined.net/ --I LOVE Lindsay and Lexi Kite! They're the two sisters who started the Beauty Redefined organization to bring awareness to the media's sexual objectification of women. There are a TON of great articles on the website talking about different ways that the media manipulates women's self-perception and how to fight against it. One of my favorite blog posts from them is here: http://www.beautyredefined.net/physically-photoshopping-ourselves-out-of-reality/

This video below is a performance of one of my very favorite poems (shared with me by the lovely Christina Matthews--thanks Nina! =)

Daughters of a King

One of the biggest inspirations for this blog was my experience with the song "Daughter of a King" by Jenny Phillips. Every year for about four years while I was in high school and a little while after, a lady in my church's local ward would ask me to accompany a group of girls who sang this song in the "Eleven is Heaven" program, a workshop for girls getting ready to make the transition from primary (the LDS children's program) to young women (the program in the LDS church for teen girls age 12-17). It was (and still is) amazing to me how powerfully this song brought the Spirit and how it affected the 11-year-old girls at the presentation. There is so much pressure for women and girls to conform to the world's standard of so-called "beauty" that it gets hard to remember who we are as women and the divine potential that we have to become like our Heavenly Father, but this song is such a great reminder. Here's link to a video where you can listen to the song. Beneath that I've typed the lyrics for you =) Enjoy!





"Daughter of a King" by Jenny Phillips and Tyler Castleton


Do you wonder if He knows who you are?
Do you wonder if He knows the secret pleadings of your heart?
He has numbered every sand of the sea,
And He longs for you to know that He believes in you.


Can you feel a quiet power from above?
Can you feel His strength surround you when your own is not enough?
He has blessed you with His Spirit from on high,
And He longs for you to know it lives inside of you--Oh be true


(chorus)
Daughter of a King,
The Father's royalty,
Heir to His divinity.
He's calling your name
To come and take your place before His throne;
He has always known
What He created you to be:
A daughter of a King.


You hold the promises of all eternity,
Rise to claim the noble birthright
You were sent here to receive.
He has loved you since you lived with Him before,
Let Him lead you to the gifts He has in store for you--Oh be true.


(chorus again)
Daughter of a King,
The Father's royalty,
Heir to His divinity.
He's calling your name
To come and take your place
Before His throne;
He has always known
What He created you to be:
A daughter of a King


Daughters of a King,
The Father's royalty,
Heirs to His divinity.
He's calling our names
To come and take our place before His throne;
He has always known
What He created us to be:
Daughters of a King.