self-affirming

My 10-year-old daughter and her friends recently attended a kind of "positive body image" party, intended to reaffirm -- or in some cases, introduce -- their positive sense of self, realistic and self-affirming definitions of beauty, their connections through their friendships and their desire to continue these relationships to build up rather than tear down each other's feelings of self-worth.

Maggie Lamond Simone: What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You? Maggie Lamond Simone 2011

My 10-year-old daughter and her friends recently attended a kind of "positive body image" party, intended to reaffirm -- or in some cases, introduce -- their positive sense of self, realistic and self-affirming definitions of beauty, their connections through their friendships and their desire to continue these relationships to build up rather than tear down each other's feelings of self-worth.

Maggie Lamond Simone: What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You? Maggie Lamond Simone 2011

There are shades of Supernanny here as pregnant middle-class mum Hazel struggles with a problem eight-year-old son and a failing business as her plastic surgeon husband embarks on some self-affirming charitable venture.

This week's new theatre and dance 2012

Under such conditions, it's tempting to create a comfort zone of self-affirming opinion in which compromise and common ground are vilified as weakness.

News industry's depression has spillover implications 2009

In the late 1970s, the denominations that later merged to form the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. approved formal policies that said "self-affirming, practicing homosexuals" could not be ordained.

Presbyterians clear way for ordaining gays, lesbians 2011

I like your attitude (and your circus analogies!) as you express an entitlement to take what you need that is very liberating and self-affirming.

ME Again « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

In the late 1970s, the denominations that later merged to form the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. approved formal policies that said "self-affirming, practicing homosexuals" could not be ordained.

Presbyterians clear way for ordaining gays, lesbians 2011

Soon, the young conservative has a job at a conservative organization, a new self-affirming social group of like-minded friends, from whom a spouse will the chosen to raise the next generation all over again.

Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will 2010

Soon, the young conservative has a job at a conservative organization, a new self-affirming social group of like-minded friends, from whom a spouse will the chosen to raise the next generation all over again.

Rupert Russell: Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will 2010

And in the four decades since the Stonewall Riots marked the beginning of modern LGBT activism, the self-affirming phrase "Gay Pride" has evolved into a synonym for the movement itself.

Eleanor Moonier: With Increased Visibility, Cultural Attitudes Towards Gays and Lesbians Shift Eleanor Moonier 2010