How to Parent Healthy Body Image and Why it Matters

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Check out my recent article on parenting and body image on recovery.org.

You can find Does Every Woman Have an Eating Disorder? Challenging Our Nation’s Fixation with Food and Weight on Amazon (as a paperback and Kindle) and at BarnesandNoble.com.

SOURCE: Does Every Woman Have an Eating Disorder? – Read entire story here.

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