Index of Articles

Articles Not Elsewhere Classified

• Be Willing to Change – Set an Intention
  The most important factor in changing our current situation is creating a vision and setting an intention. Most people know when they want to change their current situation. They know when they are unhappy. They know when they are depressed and anxious, frustrated and stressed. Yet often times they don’t have a vision for where they want to get to. 
• Are you ready to get naked?
  Summer is almost here and warmer temperatures mean less clothing. That′s right – it′s time to trade in your overcoat for your bathing suit and shorts.
  
• What Are We Doing To Our Daughters? How to tell if your daughter is at risk (short version)
  In a culture of stick-thin models, our young adolescents are embarking on a dangerous path of dieting, bingeing, and purging. Here is how to tell if your daughter is at risk, as well as tips and exercises to help improve body-image in your household.
• What Are We Doing To Our Daughters? How to tell if your daughter is at risk (long version)
  In a culture of stick-thin models, our young adolescents are embarking on a dangerous path of dieting, bingeing, and purging. Here is how to tell if your daughter is at risk, as well as tips and exercises to help improve body-image in your household.
• Subtleties of Body Loathing: Five Signs That You Need to Make Peace with Your Body
  So you are not anorexic, and you are not bulimic, and you don't binge eat most of the time, but do you love your body? According to the latest statistics, the answer is probably "no".
• Body Areas we Hate: How to Love Them
  Do you love your body? No really, do you? If you're a woman, chances are you don't. Studies show that 80-90% of adult women dislike their bodies. In fact, many of them truly hate their own bodies.
• 5 Ways to Show your Daughter She is Beautiful
  Does your daughter love her body? Or does she suffer from that nagging sense that she is not quite good enough?
• Body Talk
  Do you love your body? No really, do you? If you're a woman, chances are you don't. Studies show that 80-90% of adult women dislike their bodies. In fact, many of them truly hate their own bodies.
• Confronting Media Messages: A Size 2 is not Fat
  Every woman living in this culture knows the standard for beauty: you should be thin, young, and toned, and the thinner the better. Of course, having large breasts is a bonus. This is the message that is projected by the media, and it is a message the most women have listened to, putting them at war with their own bodies and creating feelings of shame, guilt, and inadequacy, and dissatisfaction.
• Make Your Daughter Strong!
  Growing up is difficult, very difficult. Children are constantly subject to the message that they need to do more, be more, and have more in order to be successful. Media messages teach young girls that their bodies should be unreasonably thin and blemish-free.
• It's Not Just about Calories (adults)
  Achieving a healthy weight is not just about the food you eat; it is about self-esteem, self-worth, and a healthy emotional life.
• It's Not Just about Calories (teens)
  Achieving a healthy weight is not just about the food you eat; it is about self-esteem, self-worth, and a healthy emotional life.
• Pounds and Popularity
  Is your daughter's weight the result of her social network? A recent study authored by Adina Lemeshow claims that feeling unpopular can actually lead to weight gain in girls ranging from 12-18-years-old. The study showed that girls who perceived themselves as "unpopular" were 69 percent more likely to gain two points on the body mass index scale in the subsequent years following the original survey.
• Yoga and Body Image
  Do you love your body? Honestly, do you? If you are a woman in this country, chances are that you don't. 80-90% of adult women dislike their bodies. 15% of women say they would sacrifice more than five years of their lives to be thinner, while 24% say they would sacrifice up to three years of their life.
• Eating Disorders: The Key to Happiness?
  Eating disorders are just one other dysfunctional attempt to achieve lasting peace and happiness. This is not meant to minimize the horrible and destructive nature of eating disorders, but it is meant to bring some insight into a complex phenomenon.
• Anorexia: How to Know when you Need Help
  Do you struggle with an eating disorder? Do you wonder if you are anorexic?
• Bulimia: What is it Really About?
  As with anorexia, bulimia exists along a continuum. Some people who are so entrenched in the disease that they vomit after every meal. They have completely destroyed their digestive systems and have caused permanent damage to their bodies.
• The Media Has it All Wrong
  The media has it all wrong, which means, by extension, that we as a society have it all wrong as well. This might seem obvious, but since I have largely ignored the media for most of my life, it is in some way “news” for me. I have never owned a TV and have avoided women’s magazines like the plague. So I was a bit naïve about the specifics of media messaging.
• Chasing the Illusion
  Obsession with body and weight and subsequent disordered eating is a painful journey of chasing an illusion. Many women, and a grown number of men, are driven by a compulsive need to have the “perfect body”, and will go to any length to achieve this. The problem is that this involves fighting against ourselves and reality on a daily basis. This process is exhausting and never results in anything other than suffering.