Today is the last day of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. All notes sent to Operation Beautiful this week will also be posted to the NEDA website.
NEDA Tip of the Day:
Why Fat Talk rears its ugly head when you’re feeling stressed or sad.
Regular Notes:
Stefany wrote, “I’m currently at River Centre Clinic (a treatment facility for eating disorders) in Sylvania, Ohio. We did an Operation Beautiful project for one of our groups. I’m sending our group photo in. We put this banner across our community bathroom mirror. It was an awesome group.”
Lady sent in these notes:
Diana Sng from Singapore wrote, “I had been really inspired by the movement of sharing thoughts and positivity via Post-Its lately. When I came across your site, I started posting up a a picture or two and tagged my girlfriends on Facebook. I had fun. And it made me smile!”
Erika from University of West Georgia wrote, “I was walking to my class after the most horrible week ever. A stranger walking in the opposite direction stopped me, handed me a scrap of paper, and continued walking. I opened the paper and it said "I think you’re beautiful. Pass this to the next beautiful person you see." It easily made my day, but it got better when I stopped someone walking out of their classroom and gave them the paper. The look on their face when they read it… that was something I’ll never forget. So often, people feel alone, especially on a college campus, away from their family and old friends. Sometimes, they don’t fit in well, and it wears at them day after day. If one little scrap of paper saying something as simple as "You’re beautiful" can light up someone’s day, why shouldn’t we try it? It took a little time out of my day to give that paper to someone and a little courage to approach a stranger, but I was in no way inconvenienced. To everyone who receives a note, please pass it on. You never know how much it will mean to someone.”
Anonymous posted this note:
Sam from Vero Beach wrote, “I found Operation Beautiful and was completely touched by the message. I immediately started collecting all the post-it notes I had at home, and wrote a message for every mirror at Indian River State College. Some of the High School students who are dual enrolled there (like myself) took it upon themselves to join me, and spread the message to our high school. The girls kept the notes for themselves, and were whispering about it all day! It made me smile so much I didn’t think I could stop 
Keep on being beautiful! The note reads: “Leonardo Davinci couldn’t paint a prettier picture!”
Suzanne wrote, “I work for McCallum Place, an eating disorder treatment center in St. Louis, Missouri. This week, as part of NEDAwareness Week, our Aftercare Group gave back to current patients in treatment by honoring the mission of Operation Beautiful: they covered up patients’ bathroom mirrors with positive messages of beauty. It’s so wonderful to help spread the power of positivity!”
If you want to participate in Operation Beautiful, post a note, take a picture, and e-mail it to Caitlin at seebriderun@gmail.com. Spread the love!
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wow this is so inspiring. I especially like the idea of passing someone a piece of paper and writing “pass it on” on it.
These are awesome!!