Forget Anti Aging: Pro Age with Confidence and Joy
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...
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 we live in an Anti-Diet Utopia (ADU). Self-imposed restriction and any form of dieting are banned....
How Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) Experience Body Image Differently and Why
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,...
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...
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