Holistic Health Radio

104: What is Body Checking and How Do You Stop It?


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This week we’re talking about an incredibly common behaviour that can happen during recovery, which is body checking. In this episode I’m going to explain:

  • What body checking is
  • Sneaky forms of body checking you might not even realise you are doing
  • Why we engage in body checking i.e. what purpose does it serve
  • And finally, 7 effective strategies for how to stop body checking behaviours

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Research studies mentioned in this week's episode:

Tanck JA, Vocks S, Riesselmann B, Waldorf M. Gender Differences in Affective and Evaluative Responses to Experimentally Induced Body Checking of Positively and Negatively Valenced Body Parts. Front Psychol. 2019;10:1058. Published 2019 May 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01058

Walker DC, White EK, Srinivasan VJ. A meta-analysis of the relationships between body checking, body image avoidance, body image dissatisfaction, mood, and disordered eating. Int J Eat Disord. 2018 Aug;51(8):745-770. doi: 10.1002/eat.22867. Epub 2018 Apr 16. PMID: 29659039.

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