Back-to-back graduate student spotlights! Naomi chats with the fabulous Katie Thompson, clinical psychology PhD student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill about body image concerns beyond the teenage years--midlife, postpartum, menopause, and more. Along these lines, Naomi and Katie also discuss how much our culture pressures us to not allow our bodies to change. There's a major disconnect between what the world tells us to look like and biological reality.

Papers Referenced in the Episode:

1. Thompson & Bardone-Cone, (2022): Self-Oriented Body Comparison and Self-Compassion: Interactive Models of Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Postpartum  Women

2. Thompson & Bardone-Cone, (2019): Disordered eating behaviors and attitudes and their correlates among a community sample of older women

3. Thompson & Bardone-Cone, (2019): Evaluating attitudes about aging and body comparison as moderators of the relationship between menopausal status and disordered eating and body image concerns among middle-aged women

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