by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Nov 26, 2025 | Body Image Issues
Body Image in a Changing World: What 30 Years of Research Reveals Looking Back: What We Knew Then Body image has changed dramatically over the last three decades—but not always in the ways you might expect. When I began studying body image in the early 1990s, the main...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Nov 24, 2025 | Highly Sensitive Person
For the Highly Sensitive Person, the body is like an amplifier. Every sensation arrives with more volume, texture, intensity, and consequence. A tag on a shirt can feel like sandpaper. A sleepless night feels less like fatigue and more like being hit by a bulldozer....
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Nov 22, 2025 | Body Image Issues
If you’ve been walking around in a fog, feeling like your emotional battery is permanently stuck at 5%, you’re not malfunctioning.You’re likely dealing with something more than “being tired.” You’re burned out — and your body knows it. Not the Instagrammable “a spa...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Nov 20, 2025 | Highly Sensitive Person
How Deep Processing Amplifies Self-Criticism Many Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) grow up believing that something is “off” about them. Too sensitive. Too emotional. Too careful. Too easily impacted by lights, noise, conflict, or disappointment. If you were the child...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Nov 1, 2025 | Body Image Issues
That “Oh No, That’s Me?” Moment: When Photos Trigger Body Shame Why does seeing a photo of yourself, especially in a group, make you want to shrink your body, even though you know better? Most of us know that familiar jolt: the scroll, the tag, the sudden oh no,...
