This blog is written from the firm perspective that how we talk about body image and other bodies is of supreme importance. The way that we refer to our own [...]
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Sponsored By: The Refuge – A Healing Place We’ve all heard about the Freshman 15, the belief that first-year college students will put on 15 pounds as they adjust to [...]
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Did you know the clothes you wear have a direct impact on how you think and feel? That’s right. According to research by Professor Karen Pine from the University of [...]
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Childhood and adolescence is a turbulent growth-period where, despite the many changes being experienced, kids are expected to engage consistently and successfully in schooling. Daily social, psychological, and physiological changes [...]
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Weight stigma is rampant in American culture. Weight stigma refers to the bias and stereotyping based on a person’s weight [1]. Within American society, thin bodies are upheld to be [...]
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Contributor: Staff at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Recent research from the University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity shows that young adults who experienced weight stigma [...]
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Body checking is a term often used in the eating disorder realm. However, many do not know what it means or how common it is outside of the world of [...]
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Amidst the whirlwind of changes that have become our “new normal” since the COVID-19 outbreak, the increase in video-chatting is one of the biggest changes worldwide. In mid-March 2020, Google [...]
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Consider how you speak to and about your body. What messages do you speak, think, or internalize the most? These thoughts can affect your body image with self-compassion helping it. [...]
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You might be thinking, “How could my body image not be my fault? My body’s not what I want it to be, so it deserves the negative things I think [...]
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