Body Image

I didn’t get my first period until I was 15 years old. I was the last within my circle of friends, and by then, even my younger sister was a…

Dear Danni, My daughter is worried about her friend who has started dieting in order to lose weight fast. She has tried explaining to her friend that she is making…

Dear Danni, My daughter has Instagram and is obsessed with posting photos of herself. She even takes selfies in the car as I drive her to school. How do I…

Dear Danni, I have two teens, a son aged 13 and a daughter aged 14. They are both “Mean Girls” to me. Apparently, everything I do and wear is embarrassing…

Parents, please do not tell your child they are fat. I recently had a mother tell me she wanted to buy my book on parenting girls as she suspected she…

Along with all the spray tans and fancy frocks comes advice for girls that ranges from well intentioned but misguided, to outright dangerous.

Worried that your little girl is 10, going on 15? You’re not alone. When I first started working in schools with young women to give them the skills they need…

Forget carb counting. There are more important resolutions we need to make (and keep) if we are serious about the passionate pursuit of happiness.

“Would madam prefer to have blood drawn from her veins and then smeared across her face, or to have her brow scraped with a razor-sharp scalpel blade?” Welcome to mdern…

Since 2003, Enlighten Education’s in-school workshops for teen girls have been at the forefront of promoting positive body image. We know that despite the fact that girls are excelling in…

I recently posted the following on my Facebook page. It quickly attracted over a hundred shares so I thought it worth sharing with you here too. Sometimes I see things…

Dear Friends Who Take Selfies…

This week I am sharing a guest post by my colleague Nina Funnell. Nina is a freelance writer, social commentator and author. This post was originally posted by RendezView. Well…

This month’s issue of Good Health magazine features insights with various parenting experts, including me! Others interviewed include Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, Dr Tim Hawkes and Andrew Fuller ( Andrew and…

I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to, and write, some really interesting pieces for various media outlets this week. I want to share the highlights with you here. The always-wise…

Last week I noticed a number of teen girls I am friends with on Facebook were lamenting their “winter bodies.” I posted this on my Page for them; feel free…

Physical beauty is a mathematical equation. Symmetry. Proportion. Scale. When we look at a traditionally beautiful person and admire his or her face, we are really admiring a perfection equation;…

I had the opportunity to discuss this issue on ABC Radio, Gold Coast, with Nicole Dyer. The following is from the ABC web site. The audio may be listened to…

US retailer Target recently made the ridiculous choice to (poorly) photoshop an already svelte teen model in order to give her a thigh gap and alien-like limbs. On-line news site…

‘Selfie’ was the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2013 for a reason. Celebrities take them, politicians take them – but the biggest fans of the self-portrait are teenage…

This week’s blog is by Enlighten’s Senior Presenter, and Program Director for Western Australia, Nikki Davis. You may read more about Nikki at our “Meet The Team” page. Dear Beyoncé…

This advertisement for Skype is just gorgeous. In the current culture that mocks teen girl friendships and focuses on the negative (think Mean Girls, Ja’mie) this shows just how genuine…

We all want our daughters to become strong, resilient and compassionate women. But how do you help them get there? In a world that seems to force girls to grow…

The last few weeks have been something of whirlwind. I have been presenting to hundreds of teen girls in Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney – and am off to Melbourne and Singapore…