Julio Bonilla’s Reviews > The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect > Status Update

Life is not a destination but a journey of self-discovery.

I was scared of everything else. I thought all those bad feelings would be too much for me.

Our experience gets richer if we move forward with a willingness to learn and change. Trying to freeze time or live in the past doesn’t work and brings no satisfaction.

This may be the first time you ever address some life issues head-on. It will not be easy, but these feelings will not last forever.

It is important to ask therapists what underlying philosophy or philosophies guide their work. These various models can be, and often are, integrated.

Some women feel hopeless, convinced that they cannot get better because they have been sick for so long. Too afraid to hope, they feel sure that they will fail at recovery, and then feel even worse about themselves. Their hopelessness and ambivalence are self-protective.

In today’s media and marketing culture, it is increasingly rare to find a woman’s body that bears much resemblance to the female body‘s natural shape.

It's exciting to read ahead on a book from the library. It's due back tomorrow!

In some present-day Arab countries, for example, rotund women are considered more desirable, and women fret that their husbands will leave them for larger women. As a result, women strive to be big, and some girls are actually force-fed to make them fat. It is a pattern that looks like an eerie mirror image of anorexia. Why do these women do it? Apparently for the same reasons Western women do.