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Karen Eddington, Self-Worth Analyst
QUICK GLANCE: Karen
Eddington shares self-worth education and outreach through her community
work, mentoring programs, media appearances,
motivational speaking, and books.
* Karen has mentored over 10,000 women
and teens on developing self-acceptance and confidence.
* Karen has done multiple research projects
such as the Body Image Experiment and the Under Pressure Project
interviewing, documenting, and working to understand the way women
and teens think.
* Karen has founded and generated over
$50,000 for a self-worth outreach center, with beneficiaries across
the United States.
* Karen is a former high school cheerleading
coach that led her team to a feature on ESPN and at the National
High School Cheerleading Championships for breaking the stereotypes.
*The biggest thing Karen will tell you, "This
work is not about me, it is about you." |
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(Karen
has a separate speaking introduction you can link to here. It
will open as a PDF file)
KAREN EDDINGTON BIO:
Karen’s passion for self worth education can be traced back to high
school and college where she felt intense pressure
to be thin, perfect, and perform in order to be accepted. Karen used her
experience
to research
over
500 high school students on eating disorders and body image as part of
her college thesis and since then she has continually received requests
to
participate
in
self-worth
related events and projects. She went on to coach high school cheerleading,
leading her team to earn a feature spot on ESPN for focusing on leadership
versus stereotypes, earning the American School Spirit Award.
In 2006 Karen was one (out only seven selected) of 147 applicants to
receive a Zions Bank Smart Women Smart Money grant which launched the
Cauliflower
Retreat self-worth outreach programs. Karen has continued
research
including the Under Pressure Project where she discovered the top solution
for teens to survive their pressure is to develop a support network,
specifically at home. She has also continued interviewing women from
all walks of life
to better understand inadequacy and the continued pressures women face
as adults.
Karen is the author of a series of books and workbooks including the
widely used, Today, I Live... Other titles include, The
Landmark List, 10
Statements You Should Never Think, and I Know Who I am:
Understanding Vital Elements of Self-Worth. She has also taught
Marketing and Entrepreneurship classes at Bridgerland Applied Technology
College.
Her most important role is that of wife and mother. She is married to licensed
marriage and family therapist, Cory Eddington.
WORTH AND PURPOSE EDUCATION: THIS IS MY PASSION
"I
love looking into your eyes and watching the transformation. The moment
where you recognize you don't need a girlfriend to tell you
how fabulous your outfit looks. The instant you understand you don't need
your boss to tell you you're doing a great job. It is the moment where
you know for your self that you have significant value, and for an instant,
you feel how deep your potential is. We need to remember how much
our talents are needed. And, hopefully, we can find ourselves belly laughing
in the process..."
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