It only takes one poorly phrased comment on someone’s weight (‘don’t eat so much, you’re putting on weight’, etc) to affect their self-image and feelings around food for years to come. A number of studies carried out have captured the impact of unhelpful language when referring to weight, in particular, that of the parent’s to their daughters. In one retrospective…
Tag: emotional intelligence
Do You Understand Your Emotions?
I had the pleasure of reading a soon to be released white paper on the importance of understanding emotions written by Jeanine Broderick of the Happiness 1st Institute. Not only did it reinforce what I already knew about the emotional scale and how we ‘label’ each other based on appearance & behaviour it also provided…
Mindset – Staying Positive
Do you get up with a spring in your step? Do you look in the mirror and smile at your reflection? Let’s get down to the topic of mindset – staying positive…It’s your mind remember… No one else controls it and therefore you choose what goes through it, stays in it and what you boot…