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Self-Help Programs
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Overcoming Insecurities
This workbook contains a brief, evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral program for managing appearance anxiety. It encompasses a step-by-step guide based on exposure therapy, the gold-standard when it comes to treating anxiety, and it is designed to help you feel more confident about your appearance. While you can go through this program at your own pace, Dr. Luis has included his clinical recommendations for how you should pace yourself.
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Managing Binge Eating
This workbook contains a brief, evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral program for managing binge eating. It is modeled after Dr. Fairburn’s Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Eating Disorders (CBT-E), and it is designed to help you learn about and manage binge eating in the context of fitness and bodybuilding. While you can go through this program at your own pace, Dr. Luis has included his clinical recommendations for how you should pace yourself.
Psychoeducational Resources and Skills
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Appearance Anxiety
This poster reviews psychoeducation about appearance anxiety, with the aim of helping you identify factors that contribute to appearance anxiety and learn strategies to improve body image. This poster utilizes an evidence-base, cognitive-behavioral framework of body image.
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Binge Eating
This poster contains information on factors commonly associated with binge eating and is designed to help you gain awareness of your own binge eating patterns. This poster utilizes an evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral framework of eating disorders.
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Motivation
This poster revolves around expansion, a skill designed to help you acknowledge and manage uncomfortable emotions. This poster draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based treatment for many mental health concerns, and walks you through applying expansion to fitness.
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Distress Tolerance
This poster revolves around self-soothing, a distress tolerance skill designed to help you get through unpleasant emotions. This poster draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an evidence-based treatment for many mental health concerns, and it gives you examples for how to self-soothe.
The above resources were developed in partnership with Dr. Luis Ordaz, a licensed psychologist in Tampa, FL, as an initiative to make mental health resources more accessible to the fitness community. He also offers bodybuilding mental health coaching for competitive and recreational bodybuilders. If you’re looking to work with another licensed mental health professional, www.psychologytoday.com is a great international tool for finding help.
Meet our current psychology intern!
DANNY
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Hi guys my name is Danny. I am a 22 year old psychology student at the University of South Florida (USF). I also work as a registered behavioral health technician part time, and overall I just love to help people. My goal is to be able make an impact on people’s lives and aid them in building better physical and mental habits. I love to go to the gym and just exercise in general. My goal is to hit at least 90 minutes of exercise per day, whether that be lifting weights, playing soccer and basketball, or just going on a simple jog. I believe exercise helps people so much more than they could ever know, and I definitely know it helps me. Overall, I am joining this community because of my love for psychology, helping people, and exercise focused lifestyle!