A Woman’s Life Journey of Body Acceptance Part Three: Moving into Body Acceptance for Women For women, body image issues can continue to dominate our acceptance of self throughout the college and adult years, ranging from focus on parts of our body we do not like to ways that we feel in our body movement. …
A Woman’s Life Journey of Body Acceptance Part 2 of 3: Teen Women Body Blues The teen years present a mix of fears related to body image for girls. This is magnified with normal insecurities regarding self-acceptance. Mixed messages are present from society’s view of what is beauty. Girls are transforming into women as their…
A Woman’s Life Journey of Body Acceptance Part 1 of 3: Beginning of Beauty or Beast? I came across a wonderful article in the March 2012 Real Simple magazine about a women’s journey in resolving her body image and recognizing her beauty (check it out; see resource below). It got me thinking about our individual…
Pain is the body’s way of sounding our internal alarm. It says, “Stop, you’re going too far, you’re doing too much, this is dangerous.” Without these warnings, you could be in serious trouble! Everyone’s pain tolerance is different- some can handle more bodily stress than others. When pain supersedes your tolerance with a daily or…
Chronic pain is a wide spread problem mainly among older adults. However, over the past five years chronic pain has been statistically proven to be prevalent in younger adults. I have my own definition, but academically let’s define chronic pain. The American Academy of Pain Medicine defines chronic pain as, “Pain signals keep firing in…