by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Oct 26, 2025 | Body Image Issues
When Halloween Feels More Trick Than Treat: Understanding Why Some People Opt Out Halloween is supposed to be fun — a chance to play, indulge, and maybe even feel daring. But for many, it’s the opposite. The costumes feel exposing, the candy feels threatening, and the...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Apr 16, 2025 | Body Image Issues
Anti-Diet Utopia: A World Without Food Shame or Body Distress It is the year 2500, and the world is now an Anti-Diet Utopia (ADU). No more self-imposed restriction or dieting. They’re banned. Bodies of all shapes and sizes are welcome. In ADU, bodies...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Nov 21, 2024 | Body Image Issues, Highly Sensitive Person
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) Experience Body Image Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) have a unique take on the world. They experience things differently and feel things much more intensely than their less sensitive counterparts. Heightened sensitivity, for example,...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Sep 6, 2024 | Body Image Issues
It’s one of life’s most momentous rites of passage. Every August young adults shed their status in high school and enthusiastically assume a new role as college freshmen (aka “first-years”). Starry-eyed, ambitious, and naively straddling puberty and...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jun 15, 2024 | Body Image Issues
Naked. Raw. Alone. Unencumbered, unpretentious, unadorned. Stand this way in front of a full-length mirror, take and release a deep breath, and observe. Observe your thoughts as you observe your body. This is, after all, an exercise in body-acceptance and embracing...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Oct 30, 2023 | Body Image Issues
She’s long, lean, and smothered in pink. Her hair is beauty-pageant lush, her plastic breasts are firmly attentive, and her non-bunioned feet are always on tiptoe. And she has it all – careers, houses, cars, fashion, friends. It’s no wonder her smiling eyes sparkle...
