by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Apr 16, 2025 | Body Image Issues
We live in a culture obsessed with youth. Wrinkles are considered flaws; midlife is deemed a time of decline; and aging with confidence is reserved for the rich and famous. For the rest of us, aging is something to resist, fear, disguise, or even joke about. Whether...
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 we live in an Anti-Diet Utopia (ADU). Self-imposed restriction and any form of dieting are banned. Bodies of all shapes and sizes are welcome. In ADU, bodies thrive. No more...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Nov 21, 2024 | Body Image Issues, Highly Sensitive Person
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, greatly impacts how Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)...
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...
