Girly Thought #1: “I’m Fat.” A Sure Way NOT to Lose Weight in the New Year

February 5th, 2016 | Posted by Patricia O'Gorman, PhD in Body Image | Girly Thoughts | Health & Wellness | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on Girly Thought #1: “I’m Fat.” A Sure Way NOT to Lose Weight in the New Year)

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat.” —Geneen Roth   Yes, over the holidays you ate more than you wished you had, and now you feel . . . fat.   Girly Thought #1: I’m Fat   Become aware that the multi-billion dollar diet industry has ramped up, telling you that you need to lose …
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“Beauty is Worth the Pain”: A Toxic Girly Thought

May 8th, 2015 | Posted by Patricia O'Gorman, PhD in Body Image | Girly Thoughts | Health & Wellness | Women's Issues - (Comments Off on “Beauty is Worth the Pain”: A Toxic Girly Thought)

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” —Amy Bloom     Beauty should be painful? Really? It is amazing how powerful our girly thoughts are . . .yes, those thoughts that tell us we have to live up to a certain societal standard if we want to be desirable, no matter …
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