by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Sep 26, 2022 | Body Image Issues, Uncategorized
There’s one relationship you can’t escape, and that is the one you have with yourself. And that relationship extends to what you see in the mirror and how you perceive and respond to it. Most of us see things we would like to change. But, for some people, those little...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jun 13, 2022 | Body Image Issues
Bodies are neither good nor bad. Body image, however, can’t say the same. Good, bad, or somewhere in between, body image isn’t really about your body at all. It’s about the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions you have about it. Positive thoughts and feelings? Good...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jun 5, 2022 | Body Image Issues
You’ve probably heard the saying about beach body images. The one that goes like this: If you want a beach body, go to the beach. With your body. Now you have a beach body! Sigh. If only we were all socialized to feel that eeezy breezy. But we’re not. We...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Apr 25, 2022 | Body Image Issues
Helicopter parents, listen up! You may risk hearing, “I hate you!” followed by a slamming door as your teenager storms away. But this is an important credential to add to your (so your child thinks) overprotective parenting resumé. Social media and body image research...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Apr 15, 2022 | Body Image Issues
You’re aware. Of darn near everything. It doesn’t matter if it’s outside of you or inside of you, it doesn’t get by you. And by golly, that goes for your body, too. Thanks to Diet Culture, feeling badly about your own body is more common than not. Add in the...
by Elayne S. Daniels, PhD | Jan 13, 2022 | Body Image Issues
She wiggles and giggles and waves and kicks, catching fingers and toes for chewing as they pass her angelic face. She delights in the perfection of herself and the perfection of being alive. There is nothing to improve. “Body image,” in the purity of her infancy,...
