Body Image Distress

Your Body Image refers to how you experience who you are. It is your personal relationship with your body, that encompasses your perceptions, beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions that relate to your physical appearance. Your relationship with your body can be pretty complex, which can lead to Body Image Distress.

Having a poor Body Image can make you feel inadequate, as it can lower your self-esteem. You may not value yourself and have low self-worth, which could lead to feelings of helplessness and believing you are depressed.

Social situations may cause you stress, because you feel self-conscious or inadequate. You may be having difficulty accepting your looks, which makes you believe others won’t like your looks either. This may cause you to be fearful of being judged and rejected by others.

A negative Body Image can also lead to patterns of disordered eating. Excessive dieting and exercising, because you fear you look fat, can lead to binge eating and purging. Poor Body Image is very much part of having an Eating Disorder.

Treatment

Our Eating Therapists will help you develop a new healthier relationship with your Body Image:

• We will help you what situations from your history have made an impact on your Body Image
• We will help you identify what things trigger you to have negative Body Image thoughts and emotions
• We will teach you how to experience and name emotions, so that you don’t use food and eating to push them away
• We will help you uncover assumptions and distortions in your thinking style, and show you how to create new positive thoughts about your Body Image
• We will support you as you build your confidence in new social situations

Let us be your guide as you build a new relationship with your Body Image. Please call us today on 020 7499 8922 or email info@weightmatters.co.uk and book in for a FREE 30 MINUTE session. We want you to feel comfortable with your Eating Therapist and be able to ask any questions before you get started.