Written by: Carly Bouknight, Body Image Coordinator

This spring as a new officer, it was my goal to create engaging and motivational events centered around the health and wellness of all the girls in our chapter. While Fat Talk Free Week has always been a curriculum in the spring it has never had much participation or planning. This week was created as a national campaign to eliminate language, thoughts, and stereotypes that are damaging to a girl’s body image.

This year, Fat Talk Free Week began with an awesome speaker coming to chapter. Helen Hall is a health and wellness guru, as well as an entrepreneur living in Charleston, South Carolina. She aims to promote a healthy plant-based lifestyle and started her own company using her own creation of a “blender bomb.” A blender bomb is a small ball that is made up of seeds and nuts that you throw into your smoothies. Helen lives by these little things and says this is what got her through college while trying to maintain her health.

Monday began our first ever meeting of Love Yourself Club, which aims at promoting positive mental health. It is a group that meets once a week to hangout, eat, and just talk about things going on in everyone’s lives. This is a way for girls to open up to other girls and to understand that their fellow delta sisters always have their back.

On Tuesday, a Zumba class was held for the whole chapter, and was taught by one of our very own delta’s. Wednesday, I held a Beauty Counter drop-in on the hall. This company is one that I have mentioned before to the girls, and is a company that makes completely safe and non-toxic beauty products. All of the products were set out for girls to come by and try before they purchased online. A portion of all proceeds from our chapter were donated to our philanthropy, St. Jude.

With the week wrapping up, TCBY was catered to the hall for all of the girls. This was a great event that allowed girls to relax and come by and grab some fro-yo! Our last event of the week, was an outdoor HIIT class Friday afternoon. This was a great way for our girls to get outside & come and sweat with their friends.

This year’s Fat Talk Free week was a success and had a great turn! This week was created to celebrate the overall well-being of all the girls of our chapter and to remind them that health is the most beautiful thing of all!