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Category: Body Image Issues

Grades & Body Weight – Is There a Correlation?

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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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Modeling & Weight Stigma Concerns

The fashion industry is notorious for the perpetuation of unrealistic beauty standards. Discussion of this often revolves around how these standards impact the average citizen. However, this weight stigma also [...]
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Weight Stigma and Controversial Medical Reports

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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Weight Stigma, COVID-19, & Disordered Eating

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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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What is Body Checking and Why is it Dangerous?

Woman struggling with an eating disorder and with Suicide Rates in Those who Suffer with Binge Eating Disorder

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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Is Video-Chatting Amidst COVID-19 Decreasing Self-Image?

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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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Trauma Eased by Self-Compassion

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Trauma is sometimes classified as one of 3 different categories – acute, chronic, and complex. Regardless of which category it falls under, trauma undeniably impacts how one functions in their [...]
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Lady Gaga’s Battle with an Eating Disorder—Just Bulimia?

Even though it seems like we know so much about celebrities, public information is only one piece of the puzzle. This makes it impossible to understand the full story. However, [...]
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Body Image and Self-Compassion

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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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Why You Are So Much More Than Your Weight

Wherever you are as you read this – pause. Take stock of your day and consider, roughly, how many times you have evaluated your body negatively today, on weight or [...]
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Body Image Issues
March 11th, 2024
How to Combat Messages About Winter Weight Gain
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Body Image Issues
March 7th, 2023
How Cultural Traditions Can Shape Body Image
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Body Image Issues
January 30th, 2023
How to Encourage a Partner Who Struggles With Poor Body Image
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Body Image Issues
July 27th, 2022
Can You Have an Eating Disorder Without Body Image Issues?
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