Sometimes men bear the biggest brunt of women's negative body image (NBO).

If she suffers, he suffers.

Body image expert Sarah Maria, author of Love Your Body, Love Your Life has worked with women and men to overcome their negative body image (NBO). She deals with the root causes and...

A few months ago John Stevens Sensei, a Buddhist priest, and 7th Dan visited our dojo, Bay Marin Aikido. Stevens, a foremost authority on Aikido has written over thirty books on Buddhism, Aikido and Asian culture. The experience brought new dimensions to our taijutsu, body skills or...

"Our stories are in us from a long time ago," says DeeDee Myers -- leadership expert, triathlete and mother of quadruplets, twins and three other children. One of her first stories came at age 16 on her first date. She met a cute boy at a football game....

A number of months ago I attended a four day course at the Strozzi Institute, Center for Leadership and Mastery titled Leadership in Action 1.

After it was all said and done I began to feel somewhat ill. A lot of the stuff that surfaced was rather ugly....

Are you a sneak eater? Do you hide food? Are you someone who hoards cookies, cakes, chips, and other yummy stuff so you can eat in privacy away from prying eyes?

I was.

Before I was even a teenager I learned to eat in the closet, literally. I loved sweets....

Weight loss coach Kathrine Brown's mission is helping women of power and influence who are holding themselves back. She does this by detecting the subtle sabotaging dialogs, thoughts and actions that contribute to the slow ebbing away of their power.

In the beginning her practice attracted women who were...

Leadership expert, triathlete and mother of quadruplets, twins and three other children, DeeDee Myers is never without lipstick in her purse. She's always prepared, always presentable, no matter what. In Eighth grade her mother told her that she needed all the help she could get given that she had...

Who thought up the voting for best breasts poll? You can vote on who has the biggest and best rack from gross to gorgeous) right here on the Huffington Post. and plenty of people have.

What woman in her right mind wants people to evaluate her hooters? Well if...

I'm not.

Last week I performed an experiment. I took off my clothes at a friend's house in front of her and her 15 year old daughter.

Why? Because I want to feel completely unencumbered by my body.  I asked permission, of course. And wore good underwear. my friend, being a...

She called it a rape and a romance. Confusing? The messages about sexuality often are. While this is an extreme case you don't have to sleep with or have been raped by your dad to feel bad about yourself, your body or your sexuality.

Mackenzie Phillips' revelation, while shocking and...

Last week the Tyra Show put out a query asking for:

Do you have a body part that you absolutely hate and sometimes feel ashamed of? Are you constantly finding ways to cover it up or hide it? Do you always feel anxious whenever out in public, perhaps fearing...

My mother is a measurer. And I am one to be measured. I do not like to be measured by my mother, or anyone else. Counting, keeping track, measuring, doling, these are things for cooking, not people, not love.

And yet I am examined, scrutinized and commented upon. "I didn't...

I was at an event recently when I was dissed. It wasn't a mean diss, or even a conscious one for that matter. And that kind of made it worse.

I was talking to a colleague who I respect. We were chatting away and suddenly his head turned and locked....

One of my friends said that she watches every single thing that goes into her mouth. She is from a back east society family. Her mother is called Bunny, and her friends Bitsy and Boo and would still wear tennis whites at the country club even when powder blue, yellow,...

My mother was an expert in hiding. She taught me how to hide my body. I learned never to show off my good traits but to mask my unattractive ones. I began to wonder what effect a life of hiding has on a person.

If you're always looking for ways...