On her Instagram page, 27-year-old Jessamyn Stanley describes herself as a “yoga enthusiast and fat femme.” She has over 500 photos of herself doing e… Read more: Jessamyn, Yoga, Jessamyn Yoga, Body Image, Women and Body Image, Yoga and Body Image, Healthy Living News
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Barbara Greenberg: Weighing In On Your Daughters And Scales
Take a look at your own relationship with the scale. What are you modeling for your kids? Are you on the scale frequently and making constant references to your weight? Read more: Parents-Teens, Body Image, Relationships, Beauty, Anorexia Nervosa, Diets, Nutrition, Bulimia Nervosa, Bulimia, Parenting, Daughters, Mommybloggers, Social Life, Friends, Friendships, Exercise, Parents News
Rachael Boley: ‘You Don’t Look Like A Mom’
Let’s join our sticky, motherhood-soaked hands together and remember that we are all just trying our best. Giving our best. Looking our best — whatever that is at each moment. We need each other, and all our babies need is us! Read more: Motherhood, Working Moms, Single Mothers, Women and Body Image, Self Image, Women, What Does a Mom Look Like, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Ecotherapy with Eating Disorders
Written by Cliff Hamrick, LPC, McCallum Place Austin In his book, Biophilia (1984), biologist E. O. Wilson suggested the biophilia hypothesis, which states that humans have a natural affinity towards other living systems. These living systems include large systems such as forests, oceans, and fields, but can also include smaller systems such as leaves, feathers, and spider webs. But, considering that living systems exist alongside non-living systems, this affinity can be extended to include mountains, rocks, streams, and weather. In his books, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (2008) and The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age (2012), journalist Richard Louv suggested nature-deficit disorder to explain a variety of mental and physical health
Why Facebook’s Egg Donor Ads Freak Me Out (And Should Freak You Out Too)
By Sayantani DasGupta Three white chicken eggs with smiley faces drawn on them peer out at me from a Facebook ad. (Notably, a Facebook ad forwarded to a listserv by a young woman in college, not one that popped up in my own middle-aged Facebook feed.) One of the smiling eggs exclaims, “Donate Me and […]
Eating disorders and Borderline Personality Disorder shouldn’t still be controversial subjects
Warning, this blog contains some content about eating disorders that may be triggering to some readers I used to believe all the stigma, all the rumours, lies and misunderstandings surrounding eating disorders. I’d stare at the waif-like girls and joke, what she needs is a good meal. I even thought purging was plain wrong and something I’d never do myself. Or at least I did, until it happened to me. I used to believe that eating disorders were a choice For most of my life I’d lived relatively eating disorder free. By relatively I mean there had been no obvious disordered behaviours I was aware of. In November last year that all changed when, at the age of 31, I was diagnosed with an eating disorder. Anorexia
Wilderness: A Powerful Intervention in the Treatment of Complex Trauma
Wilderness therapy is proving to be a powerful intervention in the treatment of complex trauma. Several of the unique features of adventure therapy address the dis-regulation that occurs in the individual’s neurological process from varying degrees of attachment rupture. Wilderness can directly impact resiliency by providing clients with the opportunity to access a sense of safety in a novel way. Adventure therapy often inspires a high degree of perceived risk or threat, similar to the heightened awareness that accompanies complex trauma. Moving through the experience with peers, solving problems, receiving feedback and practicing neural self-regulation allow participants to develop confidence and a set of skills that translate directly into real-world recovery. In this setting, the opportunity to connect appropriately, challenge old beliefs, receive support
The Perils of Dating on OkCupid While Black
By Vanessa Willoughby for Literally Darling, cross-posted with permission Everyone seems to have a convenient solution for single people who have fallen into a monumental dating slump: Look for love online! In the age of instant gratification and lightning-speed technology, the 21st century meet-cute is about as romantic as browsing the cereal aisle in the […]
The Best Body Cleanse
My husband called me today to say his afternoon lesson cancelled. “Let’s take the kids to the beach today,” he said on the phone. I excitedly agreed and started gathering beach (and baby) essentials: swim trunks, towels, diapers, bottles, sunscreen and of course MY bathing suit. As I grabbed my bikini from the drawer and […]