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COVID-19 has affected all of us in many ways. It has disrupted school, jobs, physical health, mental health, and more. However, it has also shaped the way we view our bodies. Through the intense diet culture on social media, body image with COVID-19 has taken a turn for the worse. Although we don’t know the long-term effects COVID-19 will have on body image, we are seeing just how many people on social media are promoting unhealthy beauty standards and diet culture.
Through the tabs provided in this COVID-19 section, you will be able to explore grounding techniques, listen to podcasts, review posters, and learn some COVID-19 body image words using the word search activity. As you go through all of this information, ask yourself the following question: have you viewed your body differently since COVID-19 started?
Photo Reference
- Getty Images. (n.d.). . [Image of Girl Hunched over with Messages above Her Head]. Retrieved June 16, 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/06/13/is-social-media-really-to-blame-for-our-toxic-web-or-is-it-globalization-and-will-community-fix-it/?sh=62168cac57db