by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Dec 16, 2025 | Disordered Eating
When “Wellness” Becomes Pressure: How Midlife Adults Get Pulled Into Unhealthy Eating Many people in midlife start thinking more about health, aging, and longevity. That’s normal and human. But today’s wellness culture can turn that desire for wellbeing into something...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Dec 9, 2025 | Highly Sensitive Person
If you’re a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) who has ever wandered the aisles of Target unable to choose between “calming eucalyptus” and “gentle sea breeze” laundry detergent, you’ve met decision fatigue, Decision fatigue affects everyone, but HSPs experience it more...
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...
