My Nonprofit Reviews
elaina
Review for FINDINGbalance, Franklin, TN, USA
I first heard about Finding Balance approximately seven years ago. My coworker picked up *Life Inside the "Thin" Cage* for me at a conference, but I didn't think it applied to me since I'd struggled with a clinical eating disorder and thought I had left that behind me. However, as the years went by, I got older and started gaining weight, and I realized that the negative tapes from the eating disorder were still playing in the background. I mostly attributed this to a distorted body image, but as I've been leading a Finding Balance with Food study, I've realized that the negative tapes come from a variety of sources--including culture and other women. What's so revolutionary about Finding Balance is that it's about building balanced, healthy relationships--with food AND with other people. It's about surrounding yourself with fellow travelers who are real and honest and trying to live into the truth about who they are as whole people (not just bodies on parade). And, then, the other super important part that Finding Balance has been involved with is the True Campaign, and their line about the True-Shift is so crucial: to take the time we spend obsessing about our bodies and how we look, and to instead pour that energy and effort into empowering ourselves to accomplish our dreams and to help other people.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
the curriculum Finding Balance with Food, the on-demand videos on a range of topics on the FB site (including about cutting) and the podcasts as part of the True Campaign.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
focus on empowering women, NOT ONLY to live free of body obsessions in order to have happy, healthy lives, but also to heal emotionally in ALL our areas of woundedness so that we can go on to make a difference in the lives of other women in pain.
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
meeting the founder and catching her vision to help free women from body obsessions and then to make a shift to empower others.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
passionate and professional.
Ways to make it better...
I had better insight that this group is not just about subclinical eating disorders or life trapped with being too thin, but it's also about full-blown eating disorders, including emotional eating and binge eating and obesity-related issues.
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
funding. If they had more funding they could gain more visibility and traffic to their website, helping hook people on the truth of where healing begins--and the purpose of healing (to empower ourselves and others).
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every month
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2010
