Great Body Image Video Series by Jean Fain, LICSW

A negative body view too often accompanies eating problems and it can be hard to shake. If you’re serious about wanting to feel positive about your body at any weight, you won’t want to miss BODY COMPASSION, Jean Fain’s new (free!) video series. This series is a natural follow-up to THE SELF-COMPASSION DIET, a book by Jean Fain, LICSW, which is really no diet at all, but an approach to loving your body into health and fitness. Her five-part video series is a great teaching tool. Part 1, Why Body Image Matters, describes the health and mental health risks of having poor body image and how developing a positive body image actually can help you reach your eating and weight goals. My bet is that you put lots of mental energy on how you feel about your body, but perhaps not so much on how those feelings affect your eating and self-image. Part 2, Is Your Body Image a Real Problem?, helps you determine the extent of your body image problems. It highlights how body image is not due to size or weight, but is rooted in your reactions to what you see in the mirror. This segment provides a brief, eight-question test to assess how much of a problem body image is for you. Part 3, Kindly Breathe, teaches you how to develop self-compassion toward your body by providing a step-by-step, brief guided meditation. For those of you who tend toward anxiety (and there’s a correlation between poor body image and being anxious!), this meditation will help relax you and illustrate the bene...
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