I remember wanting to be like the confident guys with impeccable pecs, broad shoulders, six-pack abs, and slim, toned legs. I recall an instance during gym class in middle school when I was changing ...

In his novel Dubliners, James Joyce wrote of Mr Duffy, “he lived a short distance from his body.” Like Mr. Duffy, many of us don’t fully inhabit our bodies. Why should we? There are lots of norms ...

Has a therapist ever told you to “listen to your body”? Such physical attunement is a key skill for managing stress and preventing burnout. But most of us were never taught how to do this. Instead, we ...

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When I first started writing a book earlier this year about why millennial women have been uniquely screwed over by society’s body image ideals, I used the past tense a little too confidently. We’d ...