Why is Media Literacy crucial to maintaining a healthy Body Image?

The world of social media is different from your off line life and the number of “likes” you get on a post is not a barometer for how liked you are in real life…

Holli RubinMay 17, 2019body image, mental health, mental health awareness, mental health foundation, mental health awareness week, media, literacy, social media, psychotherapy, psychology, support

How do you recognize signs of negative Body Image in yourself or others? How do you support someone displaying those signs?

Let’s remember that we all have an element of a distorted view of our bodies as well as complicated relationships with food…

Holli RubinMay 17, 2019body image, psychology, psychotherapy, mental health, mental health awareness, mental health foundation, mental health awareness week, self-esteem, support, signs, symptoms

Who is most at risk of suffering from Body Image Issues? What impact does this have on people?

Everyone is affected by Body Image - having a body means you have body image. In the same way, we all have mental health. The degree to which we are impacted depends on how much influence the feelings of falls somewhere on the spectrum and the impact body image has on people varies depending on where they fall.

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