Body Vitality, Safety, & Self-Image
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When You Don’t Feel Worth the Work of Caring for Your Body
When care has meant criticism, obligation, or another impossible program, part of us may decide that caring for the body is not worth the work. What looks irrational about self care often becomes understandable when we ask what the body expects and what this response has been trying to prevent. With self care, the aim…
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Body Image Study Group
The Body Image Study Group recordings are for Thriving Now Team Members only.
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When Strength and Independence Feel Unsafe
Strength can sound desirable while feeling dangerous in the body. If independence once threatened family connection, invited punishment, or seemed impossible during illness, a part of us may equate being strong with being alone. The result can look like weakness or procrastination, yet the deeper conflict is relational: I want capacity, and I also want…
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When Thinness Is Armor and Body Change Feels Vulnerable
Thinness can function as emotional armor even when the person already appears thin. It may offer a sense of worth, control, desirability, or protection from rejection. Any body change can then feel like losing the one defense that seemed reliable. Pregnancy, aging, illness, recovery, medication, or ordinary fluctuation may expose how much safety was assigned…
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I MUST Hold On To This Feeling
When we start feeling good, our fears can get in the way of enjoying contentment and self-acceptance. Especially if we haven’t had a lot of experience with basking in good feelings, we may be TERRIFIED of losing them.
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Old Rules About Weight Loss
– I hate being DEPRIVED – RULES… and more RULES – Must be All or NOTHING – Mindful eating
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Who Will I Be Without the Weight? Identity After Body Change
Changing weight can disturb more than appearance. A familiar body may have carried an identity, a role, or a way of moving through attention. Part of us can want change while another asks, “Who will I be without this protection?” That question is not resistance to health. It is useful information about belonging, visibility, and…