Learning To Love Yourself And Your Body
Myers says that we can locate virtues inside our bodies. For example, she houses courage in her diaphragm. That's where she goes to find the energy to do a handstand in Yoga.
Myers says that we can locate virtues inside our bodies. For example, she houses courage in her diaphragm. That's where she goes to find the energy to do a handstand in Yoga.
Mike Robbins | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
What if we could truly love, accept, and appreciate our bodies and how we look, right now? Imagine what life would be like without negative body obsession?
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
I believe that body hatred lies deep under a host of physical problems. How can we possibly expect to be healthy if we reject our own primary residence?
Susan Harrow | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Continuing to associate the pleasure of companionship with the enjoyment of food gives me those same good feelings I had with my girlfriends -- filmy, fluid and fun.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
The average woman in the U.S. is 5'4" and around 142 lbs. She is not modeling anything.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment
Ralph Lauren has seen better days. This week his company has been blasted for allegedly firing a size 4 model for being "overweight" and photoshopping her into a grotesquely and impossibly thin woman.
Susan Harrow | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
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.
Leslie Goldman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment
Did anyone ever actually look at this image and think, for even one millisecond, that it was real? Filippa Hamilton's body was manipulated to such an irrational extent that it ceases to look human.
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
After Ed (aka "eating disorder") and I broke up, I have to admit that I splurged a little. I am not usually much of a shopper, but I was so excited about my life without Ed that I wanted to explore some new things.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
See a Two Minute Video: Join Dr. Susan Albers on the walk: http://www.youtube.com On October 11th the very first National Eating Disorders Associ...
Adia Colar | Posted 10.14.2009 | Style
When I was looking at a lot of the models from Fashion Week, I thought the same thing: She looks like girls I met in treatment. She needs to be hospitalized right now. In an inpatient facility. For months.
Susan Harrow | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
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?
Donna Fish | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
How do you as a parent help give your kids the skills to do their best, which involves trying over and over and over?
msn.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Psychiatrists say 1 in 10 girls look at pro-eating disorder Web sites repeatedly, taking inspiration from celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hil...
newsweek.com | Johannah Cornblatt | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
With more than 30 percent of college students falling into the American College Health Association's obese or overweight categories, Yale is not the o...
Susan Harrow | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
I am examined, scrutinized and commented upon. "I didn't have lines like those on my lips when I was your age," my mother says in the bright lights of her marble bathroom.
medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Scientists led a rat to the fatty food, but they couldn't make it eat. Using an animal model of binge eating, University of Missouri researchers disco...
Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
This superficially focused yet deeply-ingrained striving for some unattainable, deprivation-based goal can easily overcome a good life, and swallow it whole. And those feelings can turn deadly for some of us, or at the very least, consistently ruin our days.
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
In a recent study, more than half the women trying to lose weight were not overweight. Why do people who are not overweight think they need to lose weight?
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
How can you get someone back from an eating disorder once they have been abducted? It takes time and treatment. Most of all, it takes compassion to help them find their way back to mindful eating, a truly balanced relationship with food.
Susan Harrow | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
A woman should have a little pooch. It's part of what makes us womanly.
Susan Harrow | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
If you're always looking for ways to not be seen, how do you speak out? How do you move through the world if you have an invisible cloak that has no magical powers other than to keep you in your own shadow?
AP | JOE MANDAK | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
PITTSBURGH — A woman has filed what experts believe is a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Public Schools, claiming her daughter deve...
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Instead of overeating you can soothe yourself through dozens of mindful activities that are healthy for both body and mind.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
Are some people using the allergy/intolerance umbrella as a reason to restrict food? I'm betting yes. And it's not just celebrities.
Susan Harrow | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living