Should Parents Be Worried About BMI Screenings at School?

In my opinion, states should stop depending on BMI tests and weigh-ins to find children who could require obesity treatments.

In my opinion, states should stop depending on BMI tests and weigh-ins to find children who could require obesity treatments.

Unmasking Diet Culture

Diet culture pushes the narrative that thinner is better and that our worth is tied to our weight. Combating those ideas is vital for our mental and physical well-being.

Diet culture pushes the narrative that thinner is better and that our worth is tied to our weight. Combating those ideas is vital for our mental and physical well-being.

Strike a Pose: The Posture That Is Romantically Appealing

What makes you take a double take? Research reveals the power of posture.

What makes you take a double take? Research reveals the power of posture.

The Hidden Impact of Body Shaming and Self-Objectification

The harmful consequences of body shaming, and the liberation of undoing it.

The harmful consequences of body shaming, and the liberation of undoing it.

Body Neutrality Isn't New or Unique From Positive Body Image

Many see body neutrality as a new approach to body image, but is it truly unique? Here are 10 myths about body neutrality and the evidence to challenge them.

Many see body neutrality as a new approach to body image, but is it truly unique? Here are 10 myths about body neutrality and the evidence to challenge them.

Prioritizing Children: Tackling Fat Body Marginalization

Fostering inclusive diet culture to help kids overcome societal body size biases.

Fostering inclusive diet culture to help kids overcome societal body size biases.

Women and Weight: 4 Ways to Think Beyond BMI

Is going to your medical visit and discussing weight a stressful endeavor? There are other ways to think about health and weight that you can discuss with your doctor.

Is going to your medical visit and discussing weight a stressful endeavor? There are other ways to think about health and weight that you can discuss with your doctor.

You’re Not 'Good' for Ordering the Salad

Diet Culture teaches us to categorize food as good or bad. By detaching morality from eating, you can develop a self-esteem that doesn't depend on what you eat for breakfast.

Diet Culture teaches us to categorize food as good or bad. By detaching morality from eating, you can develop a self-esteem that doesn't depend on what you eat for breakfast.

Boost Your Sexual Confidence

Boost your sexual confidence by embracing body positivity and self-love. These practical tips can help to transform your intimate life.

Boost your sexual confidence by embracing body positivity and self-love. These practical tips can help to transform your intimate life.

10 Ways to Empower Your Summer

Consider these 10 tips to embrace true well-being, positivity, and joy this summer.

Consider these 10 tips to embrace true well-being, positivity, and joy this summer.

What Therapists Can Do to Combat Body Shaming

How to help clients thrive amidst unhealthy body messages.

How to help clients thrive amidst unhealthy body messages.

Thin Privilege and the Thin Ideal

Explore the impact of thin privilege on mental health and society at large. Dismantle harmful norms and set intentions for authentic well-being.

Explore the impact of thin privilege on mental health and society at large. Dismantle harmful norms and set intentions for authentic well-being.

How Exercise Helps Us Fight Depression and Addiction

It can curb cravings, replace triggers, and improve self-image.

It can curb cravings, replace triggers, and improve self-image.

How to Think About Stress, Eating, and Obesity

Stress and body weight management are familiar to many of us as two major everyday concerns. Knowing all the ways they influence one another can help with both.

Stress and body weight management are familiar to many of us as two major everyday concerns. Knowing all the ways they influence one another can help with both.

Unmasking Diet Culture

Explore the roots of body insecurity and challenge unrealistic beauty standards for personal and collective liberation.

Explore the roots of body insecurity and challenge unrealistic beauty standards for personal and collective liberation.

The Risks of Promoting Wegovy and Ozempic for Weight Loss

Personal Perspective: Promoting weight loss medications like Wegovy and Ozempic may be detrimental to mental and physical health.

Personal Perspective: Promoting weight loss medications like Wegovy and Ozempic may be detrimental to mental and physical health.

Should Pediatricians Use BMI to Measure Children’s Weight?

Knowing a child's BMI does not help parents assess how best to help them. Kids' body fat percentages change as they grow, and their BMIs vary based on age and gender.

Knowing a child's BMI does not help parents assess how best to help them. Kids' body fat percentages change as they grow, and their BMIs vary based on age and gender.

Maslow, Peak Experiences, and the Body

Peak experiences aren't just in our head, but in our body as well.

Peak experiences aren't just in our head, but in our body as well.

I Am Tired: Navigating Exhaustion in Life

How exhaustion shapes identity, but we can reclaim agency over our lives. We can embrace renewal amidst fatigue.

How exhaustion shapes identity, but we can reclaim agency over our lives. We can embrace renewal amidst fatigue.

Upset About Looking Older?

Making peace with how you look now actually facilitates self-improvement. It’s hard to do anything proactively in a state of self-loathing.

Making peace with how you look now actually facilitates self-improvement. It’s hard to do anything proactively in a state of self-loathing.

3 Ways Women Can Reclaim Their Wellness

When we start aligning our head, body, and heart towards the greatest good for all through self-stewardship, we claim our right to be a whole person.

When we start aligning our head, body, and heart towards the greatest good for all through self-stewardship, we claim our right to be a whole person.

Navigating Against Eating Disorders, Stigma, and Diet Culture

Navigate a media-saturated world with greater literacy to reclaim autonomy, embrace diversity, and build resilience.

Navigate a media-saturated world with greater literacy to reclaim autonomy, embrace diversity, and build resilience.

Myths and Misbeliefs: Eating Disorder Edition

During Eating Disorders Awareness Week, learn the facts that could help save lives.

During Eating Disorders Awareness Week, learn the facts that could help save lives.

Aging Hatefully or Gratefully

If you consistently critique and criticize your body, these internal shifts can help.

If you consistently critique and criticize your body, these internal shifts can help.

How Granfluencers are Breaking Stereotypes on TikTok

Senior Influencers, called Granfluencers, are challenging social media norms and gaining millions of followers on TikTok by defying ageist stereotypes and being real.

Senior Influencers, called Granfluencers, are challenging social media norms and gaining millions of followers on TikTok by defying ageist stereotypes and being real.

Body Image Strategies for Using Social Media

Social media can contribute to negative body image. In a new study, we investigated two promising "protective filtering" strategies that may help.

Social media can contribute to negative body image. In a new study, we investigated two promising "protective filtering" strategies that may help.

Moving Beyond Dichotomies About Our Bodies

Learn to navigate the dynamic continuum between body positivity and body neutrality to embrace diversity and celebrate an authentic relationship with your own body.

Learn to navigate the dynamic continuum between body positivity and body neutrality to embrace diversity and celebrate an authentic relationship with your own body.

Using Hypnosis to Improve Sleep and Golf Performance

How can mental rehearsal be enhanced to improve your golf game?

How can mental rehearsal be enhanced to improve your golf game?

The Weight Factor: Facts, Fictions, and Fallout

Learn the truth behind how weight impacts your fertility and get advice on handling body negativity from others.

Learn the truth behind how weight impacts your fertility and get advice on handling body negativity from others.

Fat and Sexy: How Body Positivity Is Smashing Fat Phobia

Tips for clinicians who want to provide culturally competent care for fat clients.

Tips for clinicians who want to provide culturally competent care for fat clients.