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negative body image

Magical Thinking and Wishes

December 19, 2011

During this holiday season, I hear many women wishing for weight loss or not having  negative feelings about their body image. This time of year the power of weight stigma becomes more soul crushing. Judgment based on size crumples the tender, budding esteem for which we are desperately searching. Deciding that we are not okay [...]

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Bodies Photoshopped

December 5, 2011

Photoshopping has a huge negative effect on how women see their bodies.  Comparison is the invitation to negative self talk and media gives us the invitation for comparing ourselves thousands of times  a day. “Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a digital forensics at Dartmouth with his student Eric Lee have designed software [...]

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Learning to Love Your Body

October 19, 2011

Today is Love Your Body Day, a special day for women who struggle with body image and all the things that come out of that — eating struggles, weight problems, lack of self-fulfillment are just a few things that come to mind.  That means it’s a day for most of us because fully 80% of [...]

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It Happened This Week – Michelle Obama and Gwyneth Paltrow Criticized During NEDA Week

February 25, 2011

In honor of this being National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, today the focus is on women’s body image in the public eye. And there has been plenty of talk on this topic recently… On his radio show on Monday, Rush Limbaugh criticized Michelle Obama’s dinner. The First Lady, whose wellness initiatives hope to teach children about fitness [...]

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It Happened This Week – Title X Funding, Aretha Franklin, and Simple Changes for Weight Loss

February 18, 2011

Many critics this week were decrying the effect proposed legislation might have on women’s health care. Several bills have been proposed recently that would decrease funding or even eradicate the Title X Family Planning program, which Nixon signed into law in 1970 to fund health clinics. One bill would stop all funding to any clinic [...]

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Creating Your Internal Support Team

November 1, 2010

Today's post is a follow-up to Darla's from last week on How to Talk Sense to Yourself. Or in other words, changing negative self talk. ACT II on the stage between your ears…. There's no one we believe more than ourselves, so all that negative self talk that we let aimlessly chatter away harms us. [...]

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How to Talk Sense to Yourself

October 25, 2010

Today's post is a follow-up to the post Darla wrote a few weeks ago titled "To Fix Problems, Stop Admiring Them."  As always, she comes through with some spot-on insight and strategies for changing our thinking. In a recent blog, we talked about how we are quite accomplished at talking about and bonding with others [...]

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Life Doesn’t Start at Your Goal Weight!

March 10, 2010

When I lose all this extra weight, I’m going on vacation! When I reach my goal weight, then I’ll try swing dancing. I know I need new clothes, but I’m not buying any until I lose weight. I’ll get back out there and start dating, but first I need to get back down to a [...]

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Women's Weight Worries, French Style

June 10, 2009

A recent report from France’s National Institute of Demographic Studies, as reported in The Guardian, reveals French women may pay a high price for having the lowest average body mass index (BMI) among women in western Europe. They worry more about their weight than their western European counterparts.  Plus, their “ideal” weight is lower, and [...]

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Weighing In: How to Improve Young Girls' Body Image

September 15, 2008

Over the weekend, a relative’s daughter lamented that ‘she looked fat.’ Having just started first grade, and in reality being very slim, my young relative demonstrates how insidious the fear of fat can be.  Her mother has weight issues, but is careful not to share her frustration, comment on body sizes, or limit foods but [...]

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