If you’re like many people, you might think, “What’s wrong with being a perfectionist?” Perfection can easily be confused with having high standards but they’re not the same. High standards can be productive, healthy, and good for your self-esteem. However, perfectionists set standards for themselves that are typically unreasonable and unattainable. They continually strive for […]
Silence Your Inner Critic & Become Your Most Compassionate Advocate: 4 Tips
After 20 years of counseling individuals and couples, as well as doing my own inner work, I’ve come to believe that perhaps our greatest life lesson is learning how to fully accept and love ourselves. We must learn to turn down the volume of our Inner Critic, the voice in our head that speaks to us […]
How to Be a Positive Body Image Role Model
Poor body image can have a range of negative social effects. Body image is how we think and feel about our bodies and how we imagine we look. Our image may have nothing to do with our actual appearance; it’s all about our self-perceptions. Poor body image can lead to disordered eating, compulsive exercise, depression, […]
Fattitude the Movie Comes to Baltimore, Thanks to The Body Image Therapy Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fattitude the Movie Comes to Baltimore, Thanks to The Body Image Therapy Center Public Screening May 3, 2018 at Creative Alliance Baltimore, MD - April 3, 2018: Fattitude is a new film that examines how popular culture perpetuates the fat hatred and fat-shaming that results in a very real cultural bias and […]
Steer Clear of the Springtime Diet Obsession
Springtime can be a catalyst for body image issues and eating disorders. As the weather warms up, many people find themselves stuck in the rut of harsh self-scrutiny and poor body image. Behaviors that can develop into full-blown eating disorders also seem to be everywhere you look: strict dieting, excessive workout routines, and other strategies […]
Recognizing and Recovering from Body Image Disorder
Almost everyone has some self-image issues. Maybe you feel your thighs are too big, your hair is too frizzy, your waist isn’t small enough, or your muscles have no definition. In our culture that seems fixated on appearances, it can be hard to love your body and easy to find fault with it. But for […]
Danger Of Social Media
We are slaves to social media. Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. YouTube. These are less than handful of the ones that exhaust our data on cell phones and tablets. Every like of a post gives us a little dopamine push in our brain. Every post we find distasteful raises our blood pressure and adrenaline. It’s become our […]
You can’t tell by looking
I hear it when I’m out with friends. “Do you think that person has an eating disorder?” Sometimes they’re pointing to a very thin woman. Sometimes they’re pointing to a man with a large belly. But no matter who they are talking about, the answer is always, “I have no idea.” You see, just because […]
A “Modern” Diagnosis: Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Last year, one of the stars of the hit show Modern Family publicly shared his story of how a body image disorder impacted his life. Reid Ewing, who plays Dylan on the ABC sitcom, endured multiple cosmetic surgeries to correct what he saw as flaws in his facial structure. The actor now knows that he […]
Skin Deep
This past weekend, my BGFF (best good friend forever) and I went to a spa in Virginia. She and I have had tons of adventures over the years. We’ve been friends since the 10th grade, but the adventure we had on Saturday not only brought us closer together, it also completely catapulted us out of […]
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