TO celebrate the publication of her new book Embrace Yourself, author and award-winning documentary director Taryn Brumfitt is coming to the Central West.
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The fiercely passionate champion of women says her new book is an antidote to the global body-shaming and body-hating epidemic.
After the birth of her third child, Ms Brumfitt said she became obsessed with regaining her pre-pregnancy figure and began a punishing weight-loss and exercise regime that culminated in competing in a bodybuilding contest.
Despite having “what society would claim was the perfect figure”, she was desperately unhappy and decided to return to a more relaxed regime.
The before-and-after picture she then posted online – at her thinnest and then with “a few extra pounds” – went viral and caused a global sensation.
Her 2016 documentary, Embrace, ignited a body image global movement among women.
Now, midway through her book tour and show, Ms Brumfitt said her aim was “to create global change around the subject of body image, how people are feeling about their bodies”.
“What I want women to know is that is they have a choice, they don’t have to hate their bodies,” she said.
“The most common thing that people say about their bodies is they don’t like it, they hate their bodies.
“They call it awful and horrible, words – fat, disgusting, saggy. They’re embarrassed about their bodies, it’s truly heartbreaking but it’s why this movement exists.”
Ms Brumfitt said images in the media and on social media were often to blame for why women hated their bodies.
“The images that we see aren’t real, they’re all photoshopped,” she said.
“The role models and the people that we aspire to be or to be like often has nothing to do with what that person is doing and contributing … it’s making us miserable because we are who are we.”
Ms Brumfitt said she hoped that women who attend the show would come away with a different mindset.
“The intention is that women they learn to embrace their bodies and then the outcome of that is that they’ll go out there and they’ll love their lives and they’ll do things that they’ve never done,” she said.
“They’ll feel more confident, they’ll feel more free and really just more connected to their bodies and their lives.”
The Embrace Yourself show is on at Panthers Bathurst on Friday September 21 will be a girls’ night out will include a talk by Ms Brumfitt, a fashion show. The event will be hosted Chezzi Denyer with comedian Ellen Briggs to MC on the night.
Bathurst will be the only Central West stop on Ms Brumfitt’s seven-show tour.
Tickets are still available, visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/embrace-yourself-tour-with-taryn-brumfitt-bathurst-tickets-47840690794 to book.
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Nadine Morton
Nadine Morton covers emergency services and breaking news for the Illawarra Mercury. She takes pride in regional journalism which she believes is crucial to informing our towns and cities. Have a story? Email her at nadine.morton@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Nadine Morton covers emergency services and breaking news for the Illawarra Mercury. She takes pride in regional journalism which she believes is crucial to informing our towns and cities. Have a story? Email her at nadine.morton@austcommunitymedia.com.au
