Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

Self-blame is one of the strongest psychological engines of eating disorders. Guilt, rather than appearance goals, often shapes symptoms and recovery.

The inevitability of variation in human behavior is a phenomenon psychologists have long recognized and developed statistical methods to account for in their analyses. Human behavior varies not only ...

Examples of disordered eating habits include binge eating, fasting, and avoiding a whole food group. Doctors do not clinically define disordered eating as an eating disorder, but it does increase the ...

“I had an eating disorder early in my life. I was 11, 12 when I was diagnosed with my first eating disorder,” says Anne Poirier, author of The Body Joyful and someone who today, at 59, has struggled ...

Caroline Moss is an author and host of the podcast "Gee Thanks, Just Bought It,"which helps people find the products they need to make life easier, better and more productive. Now with this column, ...

Less than 10 minutes of consuming TikTok content can have an immediate impact on young women’s body image satisfaction and internalization of the thin ideal. Women who spend a lot of time on TikTok — ...

“Have a couple of almonds and chew on them really well,” Yolanda Hadid said to her daughter Gigi Hadid on the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2013. Gigi, age 18 at the time, ...

From work meetings to first dates, it's essential to adjust our behavior for success. In certain situations, it can even be a ...