No Upside to Body Comparisons
April 2, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Body Image, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Featured, Role Models
Once again, I’m grateful to a client for bringing up an issue that too often plagues disregulated eaters: the compulsion to compare your body with that of others. In this, the most fat-phobic, thin-obsessed period in the history of the world, comparison may seem like normal behavior. But, truth is, it’s anything but. My client […]
Am I an Instrument or an Ornament?
February 25, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Body Image, Empowerment, Exercise, Featured, Guys, Healthy Eating, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Moms & Sisters, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Wellness
I just read a wonderful article on The Huffington Post. In it, Jennifer Aniston interviewed Gloria Steinem about life and feminism in 2014. It’s full of tons of great information but one especially potent statement stuck with me. Steinem said that women are taught to think of our bodies as ornaments and men are taught […]
Finding the Artist within: Art Therapy and Eating Disorders
January 20, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Anorexia, Art Therapy, Athletes, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Creative Art, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Music, Orthorexia, Over-Exercise, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management, Treatment, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness, Writing and Poetry
Art Therapy has been a powerful and effective coping skill that the eating disorder community has embraced for decades. Art therapy helps and challenges a person to create and to reflect on the process of the art making experience and the art work they create. This process is powerful especially for someone who is suffering […]
Mental Holocaust
January 5, 2013 by Angela Mensah
Filed under Body Image
I am currently reading Healthy Selfitude by NORMAL President Robyn Hussa and this month I am more aware of the shift toward mindfulness but also realize that as an African American that grew up in the Protestant church how foreign this concept may come across. I would like to speak to you as you consider […]
Hiding within yourself
August 13, 2012 by Sharon Peterson
Filed under Depression, Eating Disorders, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Mental Health
Many people with eating disorders feel ashamed and embarrassed. People are calling and texting you to go out, do things, and socialize. Have you called them back? Yes. Have you told them you’d meet up with them? Yes. But… You cancel at the last minute. Why? “I just can’t go” you say to yourself. ”No […]
Weighing In: The Yay! Scale
June 12, 2012 by Marsha Hudnall
Filed under Body Image, Fat Talk, Featured, HAES, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Obesity, Self-Acceptance, Weight Stigma, Wellness
Weighing ourselves. It’s an activity fraught with anxiety for many (most?) women. That’s understandable as we’ve been raised to measure our worth by what we weigh. So when we get on the scale, if it doesn’t tell us what we want, whatever mood we were in is destined to head downhill. Knowing our weight can […]
Our walls of “perfect” bodies need to come down…
May 28, 2012 by Doris Smeltzer
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Featured, Loving Your Body, Parents, Role Models, Self Esteem
Graciously re-posted from Gurze Publications: A while back, Tom and I took our spring break to travel to the East coast and present Andrea’s Voice where we were invited. We spoke to packed rooms, evidence of the desire for more information on eating disorders. After speaking at a university in New York, I received an […]
The Self-Love Rule
April 26, 2012 by MamaV
Filed under Featured, Self Esteem
Blast from the past, originally posted July, 2009: You’ve heard of the golden rule right? It’s an idea I personally try to live by every day. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. So simple yet so poignant. In most situations is makes perfect sense. It breeds empathy and Lord knows […]
Hey, What’s Up With the Lying?
March 20, 2012 by Sharon Peterson
Filed under Featured, Healthy Communication
Ok, so you have an eating disorder. Everyday you are consumed with food thoughts, numbers, calories, and negative thinking. On top of this you have developed a habit of lying to others about small, medium, and big things. Even some things that are important, like your health. Do you like to lie? No. Most people […]
HUNGRY is not an attractive look on a woman…. HAPPY is!
January 24, 2012 by Robyn Hussa Farrell
Filed under Fat Acceptance, Loving Your Body, Moms & Sisters
Great guest post from Chris … Someone posted a picture today that really made me stop and think about perceptions and the definition of beauty. Think about it, who do women dress for? Other women. How many women live on a diet? I don’t know about you, but practically every woman I know is striving […]
