Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leif, and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mass.

Today, I'm going to talk about something that is quite serious.

Four tips to deal with body image issues.

I suffered and really battled when I was in my early teens right up until I was about 18-19.

Really battled with body image issues.

It took years to get through, but it was really bad.

I nearly got anorexia when I was 18 years of age and then going into university, the first year at university.

It's really hard.

We know this is such a problem in today's social media world.

We're the curated body image and value placed on the external.

We understand that and we also understand that there's the danger of social media in not being managed

when you're constantly scrolling through social media and looking at the footest considered the ideal body or something like that.

And how that can really do eyes in your brain, whatever you're looking at is whatever you're exposed to,

whatever you are scrolling and thinking about and looking at 10 minutes of just scrolling through social media.

You've widened that in your brain and if you do that every day without managing it,

you're going to be wiring that into a very strong network that becomes a habit.

So within 63 days and that may sound like a long time, but just think of it.

Nine weeks of scrolling is kind of like three months of scrolling, just under three months of scrolling through social media.

You've been doing that for the last few months.

You've been scrolling through.

How have you been managing it in terms of body image?

Are you looking, have you actually stopped and questioned how you're looking at yourself as you're scrolling through that social media?

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