Anti-Diet Utopia: A World Without Food Shame or Body Distress
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....
How Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) Experience Body Image Differently and Why
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...
How Does College Affect Body Image?
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")....
Body Acceptance: Embracing Your Midlife Beauty
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...
Barbie Doll Syndrome and Body Image: Can A Doll From 1959 Really Affect Body Image in 2023?
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,...
Yes, No, Maybe? Ambivalence In Eating Disorder Recovery
The awareness of – and struggle over – what can be both gained and lost is at the heart of this growth. It requires stretching, accepting, even grieving. An eating disorder can develop for many...
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) And Disordered Eating: 10 Things They Have In Common
While nearly everyone has heard of eating disorders, not everyone has heard of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and disordered eating, let alone the 10 things they have in common. Are these all...
Catching The Mirror In A Lie: 25 Signs Of Body Dysmorphia
Call them what you want: asymmetries, beauty marks, battle scars, flaws. We all have them. The mirror reveals them, and we interpret them. And, for some, that interpretation reveals signs of body...
Aging Gracefully: Nurturing a Healthy Body Image
Where on the timeline of growing up do body image and aging become a focus? As an adult reading this, you’re probably hard-pressed to remember when you weren’t bemoaning unwanted pounds. And the...
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