QUOTE

FindCenter AddIcon
Quote Author Image
FindCenter Quotes Image

If you want a better body, the first place to ALWAYS start is by having a better brain.

Quote Author Image

Daniel Amen, MD, is an American psychiatrist specializing in targeted brain disease diagnoses using SPECT imaging as well as a popular speaker on brain health and wellness. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a multiple New York Times bestselling author on improving brain health.

FindCenter Video Image

‘It Has Taught Me Life Is too Short to Be Negative About My Body’: This Is How Cancer Really Affects Your Body Image

I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Readers Write/Vanity

I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

I Love My Mastectomy Scars, But My Relationship with My Body Is More Complicated

Paige More gets real about what it was like to be a body positivity advocate who didn’t love her own body, and how she’s repairing her relationship with it now.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Learning to Accept (if Not Love) My Scar

The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer

A feminist breast cancer memoir of medical trauma, love, and how she found the strength to listen to her body. As a young, queer woman, Catherine Guthrie had worked hard to feel at home in her body.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
07:21

Roxane Gay—Fitting Into the World in “Hunger” | The Daily Show

Author Roxane Gay opens up about the childhood attack that led to her weight gain, the unwelcome advice she gets daily and writing a different kind of memoir as a fat woman.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . .

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Body Image