Social media has a corrosive impact on girls’ physical and mental health. Dove’s commercial, which is one of the most powerful, heartbreaking, and touching that I’ve ever seen, shines a spotlight on this epidemic.

Interoceptive awareness is the ability to perceive and understand the internal sensations and physiological responses of the body - and it’s central to issues of emotional and disordered eating. Self-compassion can help boost interoceptive awareness.

Self-compassion is a more powerful tool than Intuitive Eating for addressing disordered eating.