The Body Positive Journal

Joyful and empowering with vibrant illustrations throughout, this guided journal encourages readers to accept, love, and appreciate their body as it is. Body positivity advocate Virgie Tovar shares the role of journaling in her own relationship to her body and offers writing prompts; visual prompts that include drawing, colouring, connecting the dots, and more; as well as inspiring short essays. Anyone looking to shed body shame and judgment and embrace acceptance and positivity will appreciate the range of activities, insightful guidance, uplifting tone, and fun, inclusive artwork that celebrates bodies of every shape and size.

Author Biography

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and a leading expert and lecturer on weight-based discrimination and body image. She holds a master’s degree in sexuality studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race, and gender. She is a contributor for Forbes where she covers the plus-size market and how to end weight discrimination at work. She is the founder of Babecamp, a self-guided online course designed to help people break up with diet culture. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. Tovar edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, LoveandFashion, and she is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, which was placed on the American Library Association’s Amelia Bloomer List, and The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Colour. Her podcast, Rebel Eaters Club, is Transmitter Media’s first original production and is available on Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, the BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, Yahoo Health, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in San Francisco.