by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jan 30, 2023 | Body Image Issues
Be honest. Is social media affecting your body image? Do you find yourself masking your true feelings behind a heart emoji? Pretending your peripheral vision doesn’t catch a comparative glance at the red-carpet and beach bodies vying for your eye-time? Unless you live...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jan 29, 2023 | Anxiety & Depression
The practice of yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. – Sri Aurobindo (Indian philosopher) Some things stand the test of time unscathed and relatively unchanged. A little dusting off of age, a little modernization in...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jan 27, 2023 | Body Image Issues
Corsets, bikinis, skinny jeans, stilettos. Every culture has its version of the contrived ideal body and the clothes that should fit it. We all buy into it because it’s pumped into the very air we breathe, trying as we may to hold our breath in protest. Inclusive...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jan 18, 2023 | Disordered Eating
Diagnosing an eating disorder is hard. Symptoms are hidden, by design. And you can’t tell just by looking at someone if they have an eating disorder. So then how do you know if someone has an eating disorder? For that matter, how can you tell if you have an...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jan 1, 2023 | Body Image Issues
Times change. People change. Bodies change. But interestingly, findings from body image research haven’t changed much in the past 30 years. Sadly, the common thread of impossible beauty standards still stitches its way through the world’s many cultures. And people...
