Confronting your dysfunction takes immense strength, strength we don’t always have.

I know plenty of other people like me who ‘catastrophize’: always worrying that the absolute worst is going to happen in every situation.

A lot of unhealthy things temporarily soothe the longing. But that kind of peace is short.

But body hair, you keep growing. You are the prettiest weed.

Your inhumanity helps to make me see
That you are the one that needs fixing

Aluma stood illuminated, gazing at her own reflection. Her body vibrating from the music blaring.

You’d always sit there and watch the others, because they were ‘good’ at things.

He wouldn’t try to fight his way through such a barrier, she knows that.

I explain my apathy whilst they assess my risk

A common factor across all post partum women I have photographed [...] is that almost all of the ladies have struggled with body image.

Where the hell does all my money go…?

Everyone here really genuinely gets along, it’s a really calm environment and I think that when people come for their first time here they realise that

Julie Farrell addresses the sugar-coated stigma and toxic hero-worship of the ‘recovered’...

We always go to the same place, our favourite, where we can dance all night and have fun.

Most Indian inspired tattoos are used purely for aesthetic purposes, it’s important to be respectful, especially when it comes to religious icons and symbolism.

Forwards, backwards every direction, each second timed to pure perfection.

A very simple reflection about domination and submission relationships within a gendered society.

Unlike the majority of mainstream magazines, my reconstructed pieces celebrate women’s natural afro hair.

I think that it relates to me making my body feel like my own...

Then, one quiet Wednesday in the middle of summer, we tatted me up. Right on my neck.

Sexual expression and sexual self-image are vital to the relationships we have both with ourselves and others.

A curious realisation, isn’t it? The negativity scattered in one’s head, Holds in itself the power to change what our eyes perceive...

The woman wandered in the thick, honeyed porridge of possibilities

Some mythical magic that is only born as we age

He could find no signs of the beautiful princess he had heard tales of

the notion of being a powerful woman appealed to me

What if I let myself be shit?

I want people to realise that their body is a bloody incredible tool

Body Dysmorphic Disorder clouds our self-judgement

We frequently place our worth and value on reflection

The idea came at the end of 2016...

This piece of art was one of the first steps for me coming to terms with what had happened

Cameron easily changed from himself to his drag alter-ego

I’ve never not known pain. It’s the one thing I can always count on; my constant companion.

It was not this internal contradiction that brought me to counselling, but the loss of my brother.

Nicole Acquah's spoke word performance discusses freedom from an eating disorder

What they didn’t understand was eating disorders aren’t about how you look

My reflection distorts daily,
changing like the tide

I realised people didn’t really take me very seriously. I was still being treated like a child, even by my peers.

If you are a woman, society sets one of your highest goals as being pretty

After less than two months of charting I have found this process empowering

We, as a society, have become so squeamish and embarrassed when it comes to nudity

She misinterprets this ambivalence as a preoccupation with body image

Cancer threw my entire identity into confusion

She finds the way to her feet her movement staggered at first then slowly it becomes more daring

I’m reminded of her face — red.

when horrors in my past I remember she helps me to heal and forget

Experiencing this sharing let me discover not everyone is going to run from the intensity of my emotions...

We are females, we masturbate, So what if you can’t relate

Have a baby they said, you'll glow they said. So I did but I didn't. My glow was more a shade of pond green algae...

Although technically anybody can play netball, it is one of the only sports that is almost exclusively played by girls and women...

You never told me that my body was my own, yet you told me that women died getting the vote...

I wish this book had been available when I was 3 years old, minus the complex words, plus beautiful illustrations...

Sexual harassment in schools is commonplace and widespread. The following accounts have been collected from real girls from across the UK.

Scotland has been a pioneer over the past few years, introducing a few great policies and pieces of legislation, including...

For a while, my periods were near impossible to handle.
Excruciating cramps, nausea so intense I had to take days off to curl up in bed with ibuprofen that wouldn’t touch the pain, and wait it out.

If someone had approached me a few years ago and told me I would speak openly about eating disorders by the time I was 22 years old, I would’ve laughed in their face.

When the Blackbird Sings focuses on the female body and its links with nature, depicting naked women of all ages as well as poetic shots of flowers in water.

He's a clever guy Ed - writes all his own material, sings, plays several musical instruments and has a house made out of Lego...

They say that when you’re depressed, you lose interest in many things that, once upon a time, made you feel alive...

There’s nothing worse than when you’re relaxing on the couch with several snacks, possibly a glass of wine, trying to unwind with a film or TV show when BAM...

Up until about three years ago I had zero clue that I was experiencing dysphoria. I was riding that train to denial city so fast the...