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Zusatztext "Change Your Mind! Change Your Body: Feeling Good About Your Body and Self After Age 40! is an easy to read! inspiring! nurturing! and empowering book! based on years of practice of a skilled clinical psychologist." -- Maureen Dymek-Valentine! PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill! Academy for Eating Disorders Newsletter Informationen zum Autor Ann Kearney-Cooke, PhD, is the director of the Cincinnati Psychotherapy Institute. She has been named a distinguished scholar for the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia University in New York, where she developed the curriculum for the Helping Girls Become Strong Women Project. She has lectured at more than 150 conferences and written on the treatment of eating disorders, body image, and self-esteem. She was honored as a fellow by the American Psychological Association for her outstanding contributions to the psychology of women. She is the psychological expert for the monthly "Ask The Therapist" column of Shape magazine. Her work has been featured on shows such as NBC's Today , CBS's The Morning Show , and Oprah . Klappentext The rest of your life lies ahead of you. Do you want to spend it fighting your body and worrying about things you can't change? Or do you want to live your life to its fullest by combining age, experience, and creativity to develop a new vision for your body and self?Women in midlife face many changes, such as children growing up, returning to the workforce, or retiring from it. Then there are the physical changes: crow's-feet, saggy arms, an expanding waistline. The transformations within us and around us can leave us feeling anxious, ineffective, and out of control, especially in a culture that defines midlife as the beginning of a decline. It's easy to look at our lives and ourselves and wish we could turn back the clock, but it doesn't have to be that way. Midlife is a time of opportunity to renew, grow strong, set new goals, and redefine who you are. Change Your Mind, Change Your Body: Feeling Good About Your Body and Self After 40 gives you the tools you need to utilize your wisdom and experiences to shape a new vision of who you are and what you want your life to look like -- right now. Learn how to: ¿ Cope with the physical and mental changes that midlife brings¿ Revamp ideas of what is sexy and desirable¿ Turn fears of aging into tools for positive growth¿ Develop a positive, realistic body image¿ Embrace who you are and who you will become¿ Set weight and exercise goals you can really achieve¿ Help our daughters create a positive self-image You have the power to renegotiate your relationship with your body, yourself, and the world around you, and Change Your Mind, Change Your Body will help you discover and use it. Introduction When you look in the mirror, do any of the following statements come to mind: "My dress is too tight. My waist is disappearing." "I can't wear short sleeves anymore. My arms are too chunky." "My makeup settles in the lines on my face." "This haircut makes me look old. I looked better with long hair." If you're over forty, most likely your answer is yes. Midlife is a time of change for you and your body. Some changes may be for the better, but others can leave you feeling anxious, ineffective, and out of control -- especially when a youthful appearance is equated with sex appeal and is a ticket to approval and attention for women in our society. We know from research that women's dissatisfaction with their bodies has skyrocketed since the 1960s, when worship of youth first came into vogue and ideals of beauty changed from the mature sensuous body of Elizabeth Taylor to the Twiggy look. It's fascinating that during the sixties and seventies, when women were gaining more economic and other power in the world, that a prepubescent girl became the ide...
