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Body Knowledge System® - An Awesome Intelligence - by Stephanie Wood- 3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Be Ashamed of Wanting Plastic Surgery - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2017 from Brooke ChaplanPlastic surgery has unfortunately developed a bad reputation with some people. It is often seen as a type of surgery that people who are pre-occupied with looks or who are vain get. However, there are many excellent reasons why people schedule different types of plastic surgery in various areas ...
Views: 2945(1 vote) - Diets Don't Work - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2016 from Kelly MartinThis time of year, we are often inundated with diets, cleanses, fasts, and programs that state outrageous claims saying they will “Change your life in 30 days,” “Lose 50 lbs in two weeks,” “Have the perfect body in 2 months,” and etc, all of which are, first and foremost, ridiculous claims and ...
Views: 2236(1 vote) - Tips To Help You Be More Self-Confident and Positive About Your Appearance - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2015 from Anita GinsburgMany people struggle from a lack of self-confidence and have difficulty feeling good about themselves as they navigate the teenage years and enter adulthood. A few physical flaws can easily make it challenging to hold your head up high and appreciate your appearance. To improve your ...
Views: 1432(1 vote) - How to Improve Your Fitness and Live a Healthier Life - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2024 from Mathew PhilipIn today's fast-paced world, it can be easy to neglect our health and fitness. We often choose convenience over health, opting for fast food and sedentary lifestyles over exercise and wholesome foods. However, taking care of our bodies is essential to living a long and happy life. In this blog ...
Views: 305 - Pregnant Pak Woman Had Nail Hammered Into Head To "Guarantee" Baby Boy - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2022 from sandeep malikPeshawar: A Pregnant Pakistani woman has a nail that is hammered to her head by a healer of faith who said she would guarantee she gave birth to a son, a doctor said Wednesday. Faith Exploitative Healers, whose practice is rooted in Mystic Sufi Lore, commonly throughout Pakistan Muslim-majority ...
Views: 658 - *** Addicted to Food? Maybe Not - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2013 from Ilene Leshinsky“I’m addicted to food.” “I’m a foodacholic”. I hear many of my clients express these beliefs and if the truth be told, I used to say the same things about myself. I remember planning binges that consisted of high fat, high sugar, and high salt foods. One of my favorite “meals” after a long, hard ...
Views: 1589 - *** Psychological Nutrition: A New Prescription for the Discussion of Non-pharmacological Interventions with Chronic Pain Patients - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2016 from Elizabeth MartinsA patient in chronic pain wants their pain gone. Perhaps this is easier said than done. Pain management is complex and has no certain or easy solutions. Surgery may not improve, or may even exacerbate, the pain (e.g., as in low back pain). Non-opioid pharmacological treatments may also prove ...
Views: 3820 - ***A New Look at New Year’s Resolutions - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyWow, it’s 2010! Is anyone besides me wondering what happened to 2009? Do any of us remember the resolutions we made at the beginning of last year? If you’re like most people, by January 1st you had a list of resolutions that revolved around weight loss and exercise habits. And… if you’re like ...
Views: 1889 - ***A simple solution for clothes shopping anxiety. - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2016 from Stephanie Wood,PCCBy Coach Stephanie Wood, PPC, Your Body Image Expert ___________________________________________________________ Tis that time of year again, a shift in seasons requires a change in wardrobe whether you’re a student, professional, retired, stay-at-home or office worker. You slide the closet ...
Views: 7048 - ***Bellies and Buttocks and Breasts, Oh My! - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyRemember in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy, the scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion were walking through the forest with arms linked, afraid of lions and tigers and bears? Are we women fearful that our bodies will burst forth with womanly parts like Dorothy and her companions were scared of the ...
Views: 2144 - ***Body Image Insights from an Aging Goddess - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyMarch is my birthday month. As you are reading this I am now 42 years old. Okay, I’m using the new math – that 60 is the new 40. On every birthday, I take time to reflect on my life. Am I happy with my work? Yes! Am I happy in my marriage? Yes! Do I like getting older? Yes… and no. It’s ...
Views: 1857 - ***BODY SHAPE AND THE SUMMER OLYMPICS - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2016 from Stephanie Wood,PCCRecently, I came across an interesting article about a former Olympian swimmer, Misty Hyman, now an assistant swim coach at Arizona State. Here’s what interested me from the article: As a young girl, Misty Hyman thought athleticism equated to attractiveness. She believed being strong was ...
Views: 6209 - ***BodySense: Make Eating a Mindful Experience - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyA while ago, one of my clients gave birth and decided to breastfeed her infant so she often brought her baby to therapy. Sometimes in the middle of session, it was time to eat. I’d watch the baby start to cry, curl her fists, scrunch up her face, and make rigid her little body. She was hungry ...
Views: 1705 - ***Don’t Pull the Trigger! - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskySo did you make your list? Your list of triggers? Last month I asked us to explore the emotions, situations, and foods that propel us down the path to unconscious, mindless eating. Regardless of what they are, how long-standing and deep-seated, we no longer have to respond to our discomfort by ...
Views: 1737 - ***Exploring the Innate Wisdom of the Body - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskySometimes I feel like a salmon, swimming upstream to fulfill its biological imperative, getting bloodied and battered in the process. Although my spawning days are long gone, I do feel pushed, compelled, called, however, to send the message to any woman (or man) willing to listen: Our bodies, ...
Views: 1807 - ***Free at Last from Diet and Weight Obsessions - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyIn her 1985 book, entitled “Making Peace with Food”, Susan Kano chronicles her decision to feed her body, rather than starving it and to no longer focus on weight, size, and body obsessions. The book is part autobiography and part practical guide and is as relevant today as it was when she wrote ...
Views: 1690 - ***Get a Ph.D. in Body Image! - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyI’m getting a Ph. D.! According to Dr. Christiane Northrup, any woman who looks at her naked body in a full-length mirror, every day, is in a Body Image Ph.D. program. You may have seen Dr. Northrup during Mountain Lake PBS fundraisers and she’s written several books including “Women’s Bodies, ...
Views: 1902 - ***If You’re an Emotional Eater, Wait Ten Minutes - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyI was in a car accident recently. It wasn’t a big one and thank God no one was hurt. However, accidents are jolting and can make us feel very vulnerable. After the initial shock, I wanted to eat. For me and for many of us, food calms and soothes. It transports us from our fears, our anxieties, ...
Views: 1527 - ***Learning to Be Happy - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyI have a client who says to me every now and again, “I wish I had your life. You always seem so happy.” I smile and think about some of the “discussion” I have had with my husband or that the cost of medical attention for our animals is putting my vet in a higher tax bracket or how irritated I ...
Views: 1852 - ***Listen to Your Body Talk - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyDo you believe in magic? “…In a young girl’s heart, how the music can free her whenever it starts?” as the song by the Lovin’ Spoonful goes. I do! I believe there is magic and mystery all around us. Some say coincidence. I say magic. That belief keeps me young and expecting great things for ...
Views: 2970 - ***Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyThis summer, I did one of the most courageous things a woman can do – I tried on bathing suits – and actually purchased two! We were going on vacation in August, renting a house for a week on the Atlantic and I wanted to go to the beach in a bathing suit that flattered my body type and felt ...
Views: 1735 - ***On Your Mark… Get Set… Go to Your Natural Weight! - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyThe last time that I participated in an organized weight loss program was about thirty years ago, but I remember the experience as if it was yesterday. “What number do you want as your goal weight?” asked the receptionist at my first visit. I chose a number that I had weighed after my divorce ...
Views: 1917 - ***Real Men Love Real Women - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyOne of the reasons I love my husband so much is that he thinks most of the models in the Victoria Secret catalogues are “too skinny”. Yes, that’s a direct quote and boy, am I glad, since at five feet tall and a size 8 petite, I’ll never make the front cover – nor the inside pages for that ...
Views: 1988 - ***So If Diets Don’t Work, What Does? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyThe very next day after I submitted last month’s Jill article, in which I complained about feeling like a lone salmon, swimming in a sea of diet messages, trying to convey the innate wisdom of the body, I received my monthly issue of Psychotherapy Networker. The cover read Diets and Our Demons. ...
Views: 1811 - ***The Female Prosperity Hormone…Oxytocin - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyEver hear of Oxytocin? No, not the painkiller, oxycontin, but the hormone that is released in childbirth and assists in the bonding experience between mother and child. Well, more and more research is demonstrating that oxytocin is also the female prosperity hormone, and responsible for not only ...
Views: 2132 - ***The Gifts of Menopause - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyHot flashes. Night sweats. Vaginal dryness. Thinning pubic hair. Mental confusion. Increased depression, anxiety, and irritability. Slower metabolism. Thickening waistline. Weight gain. Thinning bones. Wrinkling skin. Decreased sex drive. Painful intercourse. Yes, these and more are the many ...
Views: 1776 - ***The Long and Winding Road…to Self-Acceptance - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyI am 63 years old! Have I ever told you that? I realized that I seldom reveal my actual age these days. Not because of the stereotypical female thing – we lie about our age and our weight. And I never was that way when I was younger. In fact, I threw myself a fortieth birthday party and proudly ...
Views: 2191 - ***To Eat or Not to Eat: That is the Question - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyHow do we know if we’re hungry? Have you ever had the experience of eating foods that you love when you are genuinely, physically hungry? When your body has signaled you that it is hungry? If you have, then you know that eating from hunger, from true physical hunger, is one of the most joyous ...
Views: 2631 - ***We Owe It To Our Daughters - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyWhen I was a little girl and my mother didn’t want my family to know what she was saying, she spoke in French. I have memories of her and my aunts looking at me, and laughingly saying “grosse fesse”. For the non-French Canadian readers of Jill, it loosely translates to “fat ass”. In recent ...
Views: 1943 - ***We’re All in the Same Boat - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyIn my office waiting room, I have an oil painting of a small rowboat adrift on the sea. The boat is empty, about to go under and the sea is turbulent. It was painted by a former client, a young woman who I met when she had been struggling with bulimia for seven years. She gave me that painting ...
Views: 1870 - ***What Are your Triggers? - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyI’ve been doing this for many, many years – following the philosophy of attuned eating, practicing what I preach in my BodySense groups. And yet every now and again, I find myself eating when I’m not hungry. And when that happens, I don’t select healthy, nutritious foods, I go right for the ...
Views: 1948 - ***Yes, You Can Stop Eating! - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskySo many women I know say something like this: I don’t know when to stop eating. I need a zipper on my mouth and someone to pull it shut because I don’t know how to stop. I’m out of control around food. I’m an addict and food is my drug of choice. These thoughts and feelings make us feel bad ...
Views: 1816 - ***“The Great Body Acceptance Debate” - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyI will never be a runway model. At five feet, I’m too short and as an Aging Goddess, I’m too old. Being height and size challenged for much of my life, body acceptance has been an on-going challenge for me. When I was in my early thirty’s and very, very thin, a man I was seeing told me that I ...
Views: 2564 - ***“When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies” - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyGo get a piece of paper and a pen, right now, please. And do a little exercise with me. Without any editing, write down all of the negative thoughts you had about your body yesterday. That’s right, all of them! Your list might include: I’m fat. I feel fat. My belly is huge. My thighs jiggle. My ...
Views: 2321 - 10 tips for using Instagram for business marketing - by Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Instagram every day. This social media powerhouse gives you the opportunity to reach a substantial number of people in different areas around the world.
Using Instagram for business marketing can help you build your brand, get more traffic, ...
Views: 285 - 10 ways to aid Your mental health with Metastatic Breast melanoma - by Submitted on May 26, 2019 from mixail xarapasIt’s now not distinctive to event a big range of emotions following a metastatic breast cancer prognosis, including stress, anxiousness, fear, ambiguity, and depression. These feelings can accept a robust impact in your intellectual fitness. As you talk about your medicine alternate options ...
Views: 1187 - 4 Tips for Combating the “Not Good Enough” Lie - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2016 from Ericka MartinDo your inner thoughts ever sound like a cruel Reality TV critic (Simon Cowell, Gordon Ramsay, etc.)? For example, do you… Replay your blunders over and over like a Blooper clip on repeat, except you don’t find it funny? Beat yourself up for saying the “wrong” thing? Call yourself ...
Views: 1937 - 4 Ways You Can Boost Your Confidence in Everyday Life - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2017 from Meghan BelnapConfidence is not something that is accumulated overnight. In order to feel confident, you need to make sure that you are treating your mind and body equally well. You also need to make sure to be as consistent as you possibly can. Here are four ways you can boost your confidence in everyday ...
Views: 1975 - 4-Week Weight training Plan for women - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2020 from David RaineyWeek 1 Whole the exercises in each and every exercise as Straight units. For example, you can do one set of leg presses, leisure for 30 seconds, do a 2nd set, leisure, do the 1/3 set. Then, move on to the following undertaking. You can entire all actions in both workouts this fashion. Whole 12 ...
Views: 1317 - 5 Amazing Tips On Discount Travel - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2021 from Hotels Etc.comIf you are among the people who are really passionate about traveling, have you been really thinking about enjoying it cost-effectively? Or you just prepare the money to get all the luxurious pleasure no matter how much it will be? Well, you probably do have a lot of money, but it’s not ...
Views: 791 - 5 Amazing Tips On Discount Travel - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2021 from Hotels Etc.comIf you are among the people who are really passionate about traveling, have you been really thinking about enjoying it cost-effectively? Or you just prepare the money to get all the luxurious pleasure no matter how much it will be? Well, you probably do have a lot of money, but it’s not ...
Views: 805 - 5 Red-flags Signs - The Potential Cosmetic Surgeon Is Unsuitable for You - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2018 from Kim SmithIn hiring a service provider or selecting a doctor, you get total freedom to choose without any need for network or referrals to confine your options. If you are planning a cosmetic surgery then the choice of surgeon is crucial. The experience will live for life. Successful procedure can root ...
Views: 1330 - 5 Steps to Get a Positive Body Image (and Why It's So Important) - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2017 from Claire StewartIn a world where beauty and conformity seem to matter so much, it can be hard to maintain a positive body image. Many people turn to eating disorders or surgeries just to try to fit in. But you don't have to go through permanent or sickly changes to force your body to be something it's not. The ...
Views: 2034 - 5 Tips to LOVE Everything about YOU! - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2014 from Carol Whitaker5 Tips to LOVE Everything about YOU! We all desire love from others, but how many of us truly love ourselves? It’s easy to lose sight of the need for self-love when you are filling your to-do list and caring for others. But if you come to truly love and accept yourself, just as you are now, ...
Views: 1821 - 6 School Lunch Mistakes to Avoid - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2021 from Thane webParents have their work cut out for them in relation to packing wholesome and youngster-approved lunches. The bustle of morning chaos doesn’t lend itself to carefully crafted morsels. The loss of time and idea means many parents get stuck in the same lunch box ruts. Here are six commonplace ...
Views: 648 - 9 reasons to use a running coach - by Many people are reluctant to seek the services of a professional coach. But why would you make career decisions without expert advice? People use expert advice for many things, from financial matters to diet to college. Why not use a career coach for one of the most important parts of your life ...
Views: 263 - A beginner's guide to cosmetic surgery - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2020 from Wajahat AliWhether we like it or not, appearance is important. An unsatisfactory appearance that may be the result of several factors can have serious consequences for the person on a daily basis. The most important factors affecting appearance are heredity and aging. When it comes to genetics, ...
Views: 1035 - A Cerebral Narcissist on His Sexuality - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2016 from Sam VakninI am a cerebral narcissist. I brandish my brainpower, exhibit my intellectual achievements, bask in the attention given to my mind and its products. I hate my body and neglect it. It is a nuisance, a burden, a derided appendix, an inconvenience, a punishment. Needless to add that I rarely have ...
Views: 4030 - About Dr.Bakul Arora - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2017 from Dr. Bakul AroraDr. Bakul Arora is a Consultant Joint Replacement & Orthopaedic Surgeon. He is the best knee and joint replacement surgeon in Thane. He specialises in Mini-invasive techniques which offer multiple benefits to patients. He does the surgery using Subvastus approach for Knee Replacement surgery and ...
Views: 2016 - About Dr.Nikita Patel - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2017 from Dr.Nikita patelDr. Nikita Patel is an eminent Dermatologist, Cosmetologist and Trichologist who trained at the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. Her outstanding performance led her to receive the coveted ‘Dr. Thambiah’s Gold Medal’ for excellence in DNB dermatology at national level. She has been ...
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