[PDF] D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D Healthy Is the New Skinny:

We live in a world where beauty is everything. Society tells us that if we just looked a certain way, if we had the right products, if we were skinny enough, then we would <i>be </i>enough—we would have value. Society is <i>wrong</i>, but it took <b>Katie H. Willcox</b> years to understand this:<br /><br />“Over the course of my 30 short years, I have both worked as a professional model and been the exact opposite of our culture’s beauty ideal. I have struggled with my weight and felt like I didn’t and never would fit in. Then I had a powerful realization: my misery and self-loathing didn’t change with my weight or how ‘pretty’ society thought I was, so my looks weren’t the source of happiness and worth that I had believed them to be. But then, what was? And how had I come to invest so much of myself in beliefs that were so untrue?”<br /><br />In these pages, Katie shares the lessons she learned in her journey to find the answers to these questions. She reveals who gains from our feeli