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Six Tips for Parents to Cultivate a Body-Positive Home

While many factors contribute to a person's body image, the home and family environment play an especially crucial role. Children largely develop their body image by observing their parents, unconsciously absorbing how they discuss their own and others' bodies, appearance, weight, and eating habits. Therefore, it's crucial for parents to be mindful of how they approach these topics, especially in front of their children.

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Summer Body Image Survival Guide: 10 Tips for High School and College Students to Embrace Body Acceptance This Summer

While summer is often portrayed as a “fun” season full of excitement and activity, it can also worsen pre-existing body image issues in many high school and college students. The media’s pressure on girls and women specifically to slim down in order to achieve the “perfect summer body” is one reason for this.

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Healing the Earth, Healing the Self: How the Two Are Connected and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever

Today marks Earth Day—a poignant reminder of our responsibility to care for our planet, especially in light of the escalating environmental crises brought on by human-caused climate change. Sponsored by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day was created in 1970 to thrust the U.S. government’s lack of environmental regulations into the national spotlight.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Featured at Tri-State Eating Disorder Conference

Happening April 12th and 13th, this exclusive event presents a rare opportunity to glean insights from the pioneering mind behind Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, Dr. Richard (Dick) Schwartz. Recently featured on widely acclaimed author Glennon Doyle's popular podcast, We Can Do Hard Things, Dick guides Glennon through an exploration of her own internal system of parts, particularly those intertwined with her eating disorder. In a captivating two-part follow-up episode, he extends his guidance to Glennon's co-hosts, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle, as they embark on their own explorations of their internal parts.

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Navigating Mental Health and Trauma: Talk Therapy vs. EMDR

Traditional talk therapy has long been the cornerstone of mental health treatment. Under the expansive umbrella of talk therapy lie numerous approaches, among them the popularly practiced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), humanistic therapy, and psychodynamic therapy.

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