Category: Body Image

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Navigating Breastfeeding and Eating Disorders: Support for Expectant & New Moms

Does breastfeeding generally help or impede recovery for people with eating disorders? The degree to which it helps or impedes recovery is dependent on many factors, including their use of symptoms, weight stability, and overall emotional health, both pre-pregnancy and postpartum. One study found that the severity of eating disordered symptoms postpartum was worse than pre-pregnancy for 57% of bulimic patients (Morgan, Lacey, & Segwick, 1999). Eating disordered behaviors tend to spike during times of …

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Love and Honor This Body

As an activist in the Body Positive movement, I have the privilege of helping people break free from our culture’s obsession with body talk and its continuous trends of weight loss, body sculpting, and beautification designed for one reason only: to make people rich.

Blog, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Nutrition, Parenting

What is Disordered Eating?

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Given the constant emphasis our society places on being thin, it isn’t surprising that many people believe dieting is both a normal and necessary part of life. However, constant attention to weight, calories, fat, and body size can quickly turn into a destructive cycle of body dissatisfaction. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) states that weighing oneself, skipping meals, counting calories, or over exercising may not necessarily mean that you have a diagnosable eating disorder. …

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Transgender and Eating Disorders

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Transgender and Eating Disorders Christie Caggiani, RDN, LDN, CEDRD It has long been said that eating disorders don’t discriminate: we know they affect people of all ages, education levels, ethnic backgrounds, lifestyles and genders.  We’ve become clear that it affects middle-age women at an alarming rate, is on the rise in underdeveloped countries and impacts males as well as females. Yet little has been researched on the prevalence of eating disorders among the transgender community.  …

Adolescents, Blog, Body Image, Eating Disorders

Learning to be the Expert of Your Own Body

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Learning to be the Expert of Your Own Body We live in a society filled with mixed messages about body image, health, and what loving ourselves truly means – it can be overwhelming!  How do we navigate the confusion and learn how to be experts of our own bodies?  What does it take to deconstruct social myths about health, replacing fallacies with a greater understanding that each body is unique and wonderfully different?  Luckily, there …

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Early Morning Movement by Anni Johnston, MS, LMHC, BC-DMT

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Our lives can be so busy that we can burst past opportunities to enjoy the “slow moments” of our lives.  The first moments upon waking are such an opportunity.  Rather than jump out of bed and get moving straight away, why not try the following body-focused techniques to promote greater peace, gratitude, and centeredness in your day.  Done together or as you please on a daily basis, it can change the way you relate to …

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Got FATTITUDE?

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In May, Team Oasis had the pleasure of meeting Lindsey Averill, feminist activist, scholar, and filmmaker.  Averill, a PhD candidate at Florida Atlantic University, is currently working on her first documentary.  Fattitude explores representations of overweight people in popular culture, which often include unflattering stereotypes, discrimination, and ridicule. Through interviews with scholars and activists, Fattitude reveals to viewers that every body is worthy of love, pleasure, and acceptance. Ms. Averill shared the Fattitude trailer, as …