Welcome to the Dove Self-Esteem Project
At Dove, we believe no young person should be held back from reaching their full potential. However, low body confidence and anxieties over appearance keep young people from being their best selves, affecting their health, friendships, and even performance at school.
For more than 10 years, we’ve been helping parents, mentors, teachers, and youth leaders deliver self-esteem education that’s reached more than 20 million young people so far. Join us to help reach even more.
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Join a sisterhood that builds body confidence and challenges beauty stereotypes for all women and girls at the first Dove Self-Esteem Project live event.
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Our MissionHelping young people overcome body image issues and fulfill their potential by building positive body confidence and self-esteem -
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The benefits of exercise go far beyond the physical. Discover the scientific facts about the positive link between exercise and body image, and give your child the exercise bug, with our action checklist.
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Images of people in the media are manipulated so dramatically these days that it can feel like “beauty” is less and less attainable. Help your child resist media influence and see the real picture.
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New technology has made it easier for bullies to reach their victims. If you think your child is being affected, use our action checklist for advice on how to support and protect your child from cyberbullying.
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If you suffer from low confidence and self-esteem, your negativity could transfer to your child. Use our action checklist to cut out self-criticism—and give your child’s body confidence a boost, too.
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Low body confidence can be hard to identify and even harder to address, which is why Dove is on a mission to help everyone support young people to be more body-confident.
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Music videos are increasingly sexualizing and objectifying women, as research from institutes including the American Psychological Association and the UK’s Home Office has shown.
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Young people today are surrounded by a celebrity culture that’s hard to compete with and could have a negative impact on their self-image. Celebrity influence is everywhere, from style magazines to Twitter, Snapchat, the world of “reality” TV, and airbrushed images. How is your child coping?
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