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Healthy body image

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4 Ways to Be Kind to Our Bodies – and Body Image

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Body hatred manifests in our lives as harsh expectations, stringent guidelines and general meanness:  asking too much from our bodies, and then criticizing them when they fall short. Who wants that? The antidote to body hatred is gentleness:  relaxing our expectations so that we can meet our need for a beautiful, healthy body without living [...]

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Do You Need to Lose Weight? 3 Steps to Find Realistic Weight Loss

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Every woman has a mental idea of a size when she feels her “best.” But this ideal is often based on an impossible standard. In a recent survey of college students, 90% of normal weight women felt they needed to lose weight. This correlates with my own experience:  most women I know want to lose [...]

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Heal Your Body Image: the free eBook

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Heal Your Body Image: An Inspiring, Step-by-Step Guide to Loving Your Body, Losing Weight, and Feeling Beautiful
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If you had to choose between loving your body, and having a thin, fit, healthy body, which would you choose? What if you could have both? What if I shared the secret that helps you be [...]

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Nourishing vs. Painful Beauty Ideals: How to Create Them

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Beauty is something to be cherished. Femininity is something to be cherished. Every woman I know wants to feel feminine and beautiful in her own way. (We each express this need differently.)
And yet our society has twisted this virtue into a source of wounding, suffering, and a painful feeling of, “I’m not pretty, thin, young, [...]

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Temper Your Perfectionism: How Loving Your Body Impacts Every Area of Your Life

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As I see it, self care and loving your body are not that far apart. How are they related? Their appearance or absence in your life are primarily influenced by how you feel about yourself:  your value and self worth as a person. Self care and body love are merely behaviors; the effect, not the [...]

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Your body image history

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We all have stories:  a framework that we use to interpret the events of our lives. If you’re a woman, you probably have a story for your body. There’s probably a chapter where you loved your body; maybe a chapter where you went on your first diet. You have a chapter when your body changed [...]

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You Can Be Sexy and Spiritual

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In May of 07, I heard Christiane Northrup speak to a roomful of women on “The Wisdom of Menopause.” In her speech, she shared her belief that this century will bring a union of the belly dancer and the Madonna (as in the Virgin Mary, not the pop star.) She ended her talk with a [...]

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Loving your body; losing weight: Can you do both?

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If you are overweight, out of shape, or abusing your body with too much food, trying to lose weight does not mean that you dislike your body. Rather, it shows that you love your body. And that you love yourself.
There’s a fine line between a healthy body and a neurotic one. Sometimes our bodies are [...]

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Let yourself be beautiful.

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"We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"                                                            -Marianne Williamson
For the past week, I have been conducting an experiment. Every morning when I wake up, [...]

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Body Bashing Self-Talk: They’re Just Thoughts

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I think most women's body hatred can be summed up this way:  we have our body. And then we have our thoughts about our body. Our body is usually not the issue; the issue is our thoughts.
We feel fat, ugly, old. Our faces are spotted, wrinkled, and sagging. We hate our stretch marks, cellulite, and [...]

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Learning to Love My Body: My Story

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It is a falsehood that body hatred is the realm of the obese, the overweight, or the ugly. I am none of those things. I’m a pretty woman.  I’m a size 8.
And yet I’ve hated my body for most of my life. Even as a little girl, I felt the first inklings of body shame, [...]

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Embrace Your “Stuff” – Healing your food and body image pain

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“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”-Gandhi
We all have stuff:  the lessons and stumbling blocks that reoccur throughout our lives. If you’re like me, you may have spent considerable energy burying your stuff, in the hopes that a lack of attention would cause it to dissipate. But burying my issues [...]

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