Community and Media

You Arrive is a play about being in therapy, doing therapy and the effects of trauma. It follows one woman’s transformation in her therapist’s office as different parts of herself emerge to tell her story.

“Every therapist should see this whether they are in training or seasoned. Every parent should see this as it is also a manual for how to raise healthy and sane children who can engage with life.” Dr. Brian Greenfield

By Bonnie Harnden. With Natasha Amendolara, Londa Daniel, Chlöe Frisina, & Shea Wood Christina Marchant MA, opening with original music.

Visit Globe and Mail's website for an inside look at the fashion industry:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/disordered-eating-is-still-a-beauty-of-a-problem/article1517698/

Visit Media Awareness Network's website for well researched and relevant information on media and body image:

www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm

NEDIC (National Eating Disorder Information Centre) has developed a campaign targeting fashion leaders and marketers who promote an impossibly thin look to the exclusion of others.

Click here to read about the campaign and add your voice to the petition encouraging the fashion industry to broaden their definition of beauty.

Rama Lotus Yoga Centre of Ottawa is pleased to offer "by donation" yoga classes on Friday afternoons from 2:00pm- 3:00pm. This class is open to anyone.

Located in the heart of downtown Ottawa at 342 Gladstone Avenue, between Bank and O'Connor, Rama Lotus is one of the largest yoga centers in North America.

For more information please contact Monika Murray at 613-301-2360 or click here to access the Rama Lotus Yoga Centre website. 

Title: Real Beauty in a Word

Author: Coralee Boileau

Have you ever wondered how challenges in your life would be different if you could just find “the answer?” 

Have you ever wished you had a magic wand and just one wish? 

The international world of fashion is abuzz over Canadian designer Mark Fast's concept of what size model is acceptable on the catwalk.

Glamour Magazine will feature a pictorial of "plus-sized" models in their upcoming issue. Ellen DeGeneres invited four of the models to talk about their experience (and why anything above size 6 is considered "plus"), and then reveals the photo for the first time!

Germany's most popular women's magazine has banned professional models from its pages in favour of "real women", after its editor said he was tired of "fattening up girls with Photoshop".