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Healthy body image

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The most popular body image essay I’ve written was this piece on measuring your body in love. Do you look at your body through the eyes of the heart, or the eyes of the critic? It was a similar question I posed to an audience of women and teen girls, as speaker at a body [...]

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If you dream of a healthy, fit body, but can’t seem to do the day to day behaviors that create that body, I’m about to share the secrets to turn your intention into reality.
If you’re caught in yo-yo dieting, if you lose weight only to sabotage yourself and gain it back, if you’ve been trying [...]

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How to Lose Weight Without Dieting

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Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Heal Overeating: Untangled, a series of audio sessions and more (tools, visualizations, exercises) to help you create the relationship that you want with food and your body.
I talk a lot about how diets don’t work – and here’s why.
You must love yourself unconditionally in order to heal [...]

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How to Love Your Body as You Age – 7 Tools for a Healthy Body Image

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As you notice crow’s feet, wrinkles, grey hair, sag, chin hairs, and cellulite appear on your body, how do you react? Do milestone birthdays – 40, 50, 60 – cause you to panic?
This was the subject of my conversation, Simple Self-Love, on What Really Matters, the Vicky and Jen podcast. As Vicky and Jen both [...]

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Jealous of Pretty Women? Turn Your Envy into Inspiration

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Editor’s note: This jealousy article has been among the most popular ever on First Ourselves. Listen to this special message from author Karly about how to dissipate jealousy from your life, and what it represents to you when jealous moments arise.

An audio message from Karly, 2 April 2010. 13:14 minutes.

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A Spiritual Approach to Healing Your Body Image

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Feeling beautiful, I’ve found, has very little to do with the reflection in the mirror, and everything to do with the inner landscape. In my work, I’ve talked with countless stunning women who can neither see nor accept their beauty. I’ve also spoken with size four women who aren’t comfortable wearing a bathing suit in [...]

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How can I stop obsessing about my weight?

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Like many women, my body size fluctuates. A lifelong emotional eater, I’ve been learning how to meet my needs without food. Sometimes I am more successful with this than others, which explains why my weight can fluctuate by a size.
For years, I was very, very critical of myself for this pattern, beating myself up and [...]

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How to Feel Good About Yourself When You Don’t Love Your Body

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Sometimes, we love our bodies. We feel effortlessly beautiful. We’re confident and secure in our beauty. We feel proud, happy and content.
But sometimes, we don’t love our bodies. We feel grubby and unkempt. We feel frumpy and flabby. We feel old. We see the results of our not-so-good habits, and often, this leads to shame, [...]

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4 Ways to Stop Criticizing Your Body

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How do you talk about your body? What things do you say about it when you’re with your girlfriends, your female relatives, your daughters? Do you use your words to uplift and celebrate your body? Or do you use your words to pick at, make fun of, shame, loathe, or judge your body?
The obvious targets [...]

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Are You Highly Sensitive? How Sensitivity Impacts Your Body Image

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I’ve often wondered why some women fall prey to media images and our toxic beauty environment, while others remain unaffected. Is it just a matter of good genes, of being blessed with beauty? But I’ve met plenty of supermodel-quality women who don’t feel good about themselves.
I think other factors are at play, like sensitivity. Are [...]

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10 Ways to Create a Positive Body Image: A Beginner’s Guide

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Loving your body is primarily an inside job. But we also live in a physical universe. While you are changing the internal environment of your mind, learning to love your body from the inside, it’s just as important to make your external environment as supportive as possible, to love your body from the outside.
Why? Ignoring [...]

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5 Ways to Create a Positive Body Image Before Losing Weight

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Statistics say that 80% of American women are dissatisfied with their appearance, and 50% of American women are on a diet at any give time. This means that a lot of women are really unhappy about what they see in the mirror. Are you one of them?
Healthy weight loss takes time. This can be frustrating, [...]

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Love Your Pregnant Body in 9 Steps

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Pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding change more than just your daily life:  they also change your body, and your body image. How can you love and embrace your pregnant and postpartum body? Here are 9 tips:
1. Don’t compare your pregnancy to another woman’s. Every pregnancy is different; every baby is different. Here are just some of [...]

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What is my ideal body weight?

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If you're trying to lose weight, you probably have a goal, your ideal weight, in mind. A good question to ask yourself is, "Where did I get this number?"
Is it what you weighed in high school? Is it what health experts suggest you should weigh, based on your age, body frame and body type?
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Find Realistic Expectations for Your Body

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Our desire for beauty becomes a wound – a source of suffering – when we hold tightly to unrealistic expectations about what we “should” look like.
One of the ways that we care for our bodies is by releasing our need to have everything about our bodies go our way. Often, we hold onto unrealistic expectations [...]

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