Haven't you ever stopped to think why our list of resolutions is most of the times focused on improving the way we look physically? Our guest on this episode, Carine El Khazen, share with us her views on this topic and explains to us how socially conditioned it is nowadays.

Carine is a clinical psychologist specialized in eating & weight disorders, fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and Vice-President of the NGO MEEDA (Middle East Eating Disorders Association) known for setting up and being the director of the region's only specialized multi-disciplinary outpatient Eating & Weight Disorders program.

As a CBT-E therapist, trainer & supervisor, Carine has also co-authored with Dr. Riccardo Dalle Grave the "Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders in Young People" - the first manual dedicated to parents with adolescents engaged in CBT-E.

Join me in this episode as I learn from Carine why we should have "intentions" and not "resolutions" and how society conditions the goals and visions we set as well as how happiness is not found in body sizes, but instead in an equation, as per Martin Seligman's book, "Flourish"; we also discuss the meaning of "being in flow" according to a concept developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience", and a lot more...

"The unexamined life is not worth living; we need to examine our lives once in a while. Take a step back and examine what we're doing in order to break patterns" - Carine El Khazen

Hosted by: Rania Masri El Khatib

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