Health and fitness don’t have a look. Exercise should be about taking care of your body, not punishing or trying to change it.
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A Strategy for Dealing with Unhealthy Urges
Urge surfing is a strategy for how to deal with urges to engage in unhealthy behaviors like binge eating, self-harm, drinking and more!
How to Deal with Body Shame in Relationships
Tips for how to deal with body shame and insecurity in your relationship.
The Trap of Comparison—And What To Do About It
A key part of more positive body image and learning body acceptance is not comparing ourselves to others.
If You Worry Your Partner Doesn’t Like Your Body…
Romantic relationships can create a lot of fears around our appearance and weight. 4 tips to help manage those body anxieties.
5 Tips for Handling Summer-Time Body Anxiety
It can be tough to overcome all the body anxiety summer brings up. Here are some tips to have more confidence without losing weight.
Why I Don’t Care if You Love Your Body
You don’t have to love your body to feel good about yourself. Body acceptance is better for a lot of people–here’s how to learn it.
#ScrewYourBeautyStandards
I used to be mad at myself for not being good enough. Then I realized our culture’s definition of beauty is narrow and oppressive to women, and I turned that anger to where it should be placed.
A Potential Flaw in Positive Thinking Psychology
There’s a lot of talk these days about positive thinking and how important it is to change your thinking to improve your health and happiness. And while I won’t argue that our mindset affects our feelings and behavior (because I believe it absolutely does), I am concerned that we can put too much emphasis on …
Try This Technique to Avoid Body Comparing
It is so hard to look at people in the media and not compare ourselves. Sometimes without even noticing it, we start taking note of how “perfect” someone else looks as well as of all the ways we don’t measure up to that. “I’m so out of shape…I wish my stomach was that flat…I want …
