Body Image

Overcoming the Fear of Gaining Weight is a crucial step in eating disorder recovery and healing your relationship with food and your body. Gaining weight might be a deeply rooted fear for you, because you may feel you will hate your body if you gain weight. This fear often stems from societal pressures, past experiences, or […]

Feeling like you hate your body can be an overwhelming and isolating experience. Whether it stems from societal beauty standards, past comments about your appearance, or struggles with self-worth, these feelings can deeply affect mental health and relationships with food, exercise, and daily life. Sometimes, looking in the mirror feels like staring at an enemy.

What Does It Mean To Respect Your Body To respect your body means creating a relationship with it.  We are learning to respect that the body has knowledge and wisdom to offer us. The body is simultaneously learning from us that it can trust us to nourish it both emotionally and physically (via food, exercise

What Are Unsolicited Comments About Weight?  We all know those one-liners that make our skin crawl.  Better referred to as: unsolicited comments about weight.   Those comments make it clear that the person speaking to you clearly believes your body weight, shape and size are somehow attached to your value.   These comments might make you feel

You might have body dysmorphia if you are spending hours a day in front of the mirror pinching at your skin, trying to cover up a flaw, or obsessing over the parts of your body you feel are “too fat.” Body dysmorphia can feel like an all-consuming full-time job. Body dysmorphia often co-occurs with medical

Are you looking to heal your body image or recover from an eating disorder? Using body image journal prompts can be a powerful tool. Journaling is a great way to heal your body image because: Too often you probably find yourself dwelling on the same negative thought over and over again. This is especially true

A clever patient once told me “Don’t ever go to the gym when you’re not up for it.  Otherwise moving your body gets the same enthusiasm as taking a trip to the dentists office.”

I concur with that!  Joyful movement is the movement we do to enrich our body and mind. 

Do you frequently find yourself looking at reflective surfaces to judge your body size or your features? You might be body checking. The trouble with body checking is: Frequently checking how your body looks can make you feel downright miserable. Let’s dig into some ways to decrease how much time you spend checking your body