Dr Cynthia Bulik discusses The Woman in the Mirror: How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like with Who You Are

Wed 1/11  7pm-8pm
Dr Cynthia Bulik discusses The Woman in the Mirror: How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like with Who You Are


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.

Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, is the Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders at UNC Chapel Hill where she is also Professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program. A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Bulik has been conducting research and treating individuals with eating disorders for over two decades. Dr. Bulik is author of Eating Disorders: Detection and Treatment (Dunmore), Runaway Eating (Rodale), Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop (Walker), and Abnormal Psychology(Prentice Hall). Her academic life is balanced by being happily married with three children and a gold medalist ice dancer.

 

Event date: 
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Next to Foster's Market, Kitchen & Flying Burrito
27514 Chapel Hill
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The Woman in the Mirror: How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like with Who You Are By Cynthia M. Bulik Ph D. Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780802719997
Availability: Out of Print - we are not able to supply this book
Published: Walker & Company - January 1st, 2012