Book description
Many women-regardless of income, size, shape, ethnicity, and age-are
uncomfortable in their own skin. We fixate on our body image and try
endless diets, implants, hair extensions, and new shoes, but it's never
enough. The problem is that girls and women have been socialized to
mistakenly conflate body esteem and self-esteem. Body esteem refers to
how you think and feel about your physical appearance: your size, shape,
hair, and features. Self-esteem refers to how you think and feel about
your personality, your role in relationships, your accomplishments, and
your values-everything that contributes to who you are as a person.
The Woman in the Mirror
goes beyond typical self-esteem books to dig deep into the origins of
women's problems with body image. Psychologist Cynthia Bulik guides
readers in the challenging task of disentangling self-esteem from body
esteem, and taking charge of the insidious negative self-talk that
started as early as when you first realized you didn't really look like
a fairy princess. By reprogramming how we feel about ourselves and our
bodies, we can practice healthy eating and sensible exercise, and focus
on the many things we have to offer our family, community, and job.
Bulik provides us the tools to reclaim our self-confidence and to
respect and love who we are.
Praise for Crave:
"More than 7 million Americans struggle with binge eating disorder
(BED) . . . Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop helps shed light on
the problem."- O, the Oprah Magazine
Bulik's straight talk, engaging examples, and compassionate approach
may break the pattern of isolation, hopelessness, and deep shame that
keeps so many imprisoned in the binge eating cycle
Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph. D., is the William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan
Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, a
professor of nutrition at UNC s Gillings School of Global Public Health,
and director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program. She has been featured
or quoted in Vogue
, Newsweek
, the New York Times
, and the Wall Street Journal
. She is the author of Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop
and the coauthor of Runaway Eating
(with Nadine Taylor). Bulik lives in North Carolina.
