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Vivian and Jill on the Today show
The TODAY show: Face It’ authors examine mixed messages women get about their looks watch the video

Watch the Vivian Diller , Ph.D. / Jill Muir-Sukenick , Ph.D. Video from Getting Your Money's Worth with Judith West on mefeedia.com watch the video

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Interview on Irish 4FM
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The Lori and Julia show
—My Talk 107.1
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Interview with Joan Hamburg

—WOR News Talk Radio
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Interview with Tom McGuirk
—Radio Ireland
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The Advocates on WVOX
Women Face Aging and Self-Image" with Dr. Vivian Diller

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You Can Heal Your Life
—HayHouseRadio
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I Can Do It Hour with Diane Ray
—HayHouseRadio
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Tomatoes in The Trenches Interview
Face It Tomatoes! Our Looks are Changing
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Look out for upcoming articles and interviews in Self Magazine, Swedish M magazine, Italian Grazia magazine, Portugal's Saber Viver, Australia's Harper's Bazaar




 

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BEAUTY:

Appreciating Your Value as You Age

—NYTimes

Published: March 17, 2010
The pursuit of beauty increases anxiety as women age; two doctors and former models have a book to suggest answers.


About-Face - How to View Beauty and Aging

—Oprah.com

Authors Dr. Jill Muir-Sukenick and Dr. Vivian Diller discuss how women perceive themselves as they age and why they should change their focus.

The Uh-Oh moment: That thunderbolt when you realise that face in the mirror is yours

—Daily Mail

Embrace Your Face
Self.com
Beauty really does come from within: Experts agree that your brain has a greater impact on how you feel about your looks than any supposed flaws...

Can I Feel Pretty While I Work Hard for My Money?
—Oprah.com

Excerpt: Six Steps To Resolving The Beauty And Aging Paradox
—Forbes.com
An excerpt from ''Face It,'' by models-turned-psychotherapists Vivian Diller, Ph.D., and Jill Muir-Sukenick, Ph.D.

Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: Four Tips to Feel Beautiful at Any Age
—latimesdaily.com

AGING:

Reinventing Yourself at Midlife
—The Huffington Post
When Al and Tipper Gore announced their separation after 40 years of marriage, the blogosphere was filled with emotions, ranging from alarm...

Happy Women Embrace Aging: How to Accept Your Wrinkles
That'sFit.com
Are you having a tough time dealing with getting older? You're not alone -- and, according to Dr. Vivian Diller, you don't have to feel bad about caring that your eyelids are starting to droop.

How to truly enjoy your age
—sheknows.com
Unquestionably, the day you look in the mirror and see a crop of wrinkles staring back at you can be devastating for your morale. Although those lines of time should signal a life of joyful moments and gained wisdom, women can't help but see them as loss of value and beauty.

Beauty, Aging And Self-Confidence
—Forbes.com
As we leave our 30s and enter our 40s and beyond, many women struggle with both the physical and emotional issues of getting older.

Do Men Look Better In Gray?
—healyourlife.com
Let’s face it: men have it easier. They can become doting dads at 70 and grow beards to cover their sagging skin. Clearly—and perhaps unfairly—the self-esteem of boys is tied more to what they do and how they perform than how they look.

Catch 55: The Beauty Dilemma Facing Modern Women
—wowowow.com
A model-turned-psychotherapist on a universal midlife quandary.

Do Looks Matter?
—healyourlife.com
When beauty queens turn gray.

Beauty and the Boss
—Forbes.com
Once you equate beauty with youth--and both with professional value--you're fighting a losing battle.

Ageing Well
—www.yours.co.uk

A former model on anti-aging
—vibrantnation.com


FASHION/COSMETICS:

Cosmetics Drugs Gone Too Far: Is Anything Still Real?
The Huffington Post

The latest treatment for older women: the hand lift
The Times (London)

Plastic Surgery Backlash
—StyleGoesStrong.com

Confessions of a Tan-aholic
—SELF.com

Growing Too “Fonda” Plastic Surgery
—chicgalleria.com

My First Lipstick Red Bag
—ThirdAge.com
I am fifty-six years old and just came home after buying my very first red handbag. I took it out of the shopping bag and felt the soft, rich leather in my hands.

Brow Lift and Forehead Lift Cosmetic Surgery
—ThirdAge.com
Third Age
Creams, dermabrasion, peels, injections: if you are looking to reduce the appearance of wrinkles on your face, there is a world of options at your fingertips. More and more women between the ages of 40 and 70 are turning to brow lifts to reduce wrinkles and lines on the forehead and around the eyes.

Has She or Hasn't She?
—wowwowwow.com
A model-turned-psychotherapist ponders how different generations take on aging gracefully.

EXTREME PLASTIC SURGERY
—BeautyUndercover.com

“Face It” Guide Addresses Psychological Issues Behind Cosmetic Surgery
—CosmeticSurgeryToday


About BOOK AND AUTHORS:

Interview in Grazia Magazine

Face It - Grazia Magazine

Face It: 6 Steps to Help a Women Deal with Aging
—beliefnet.com

Inside Out Approach to Beauty
—ThirdAge.com
Third Age
An ex-model turned psychotherapist looks at beauty from two very different vantage points to offer advice for midlife women.



Do You Have a Healthy Percepton of Beauty?
—Best of You Today


Aging and Beauty
—Litchfield County Times
Wherever you’re reading this story, there is an elephant in the room, one that prompts Dr. Vivian Diller, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in New York City who owns a home in Goshen, to declare, “We need to have a conversation about it.”







READ THE LATEST Huffington Post ARTICLE BY VIVIAN DILLER:

The Psychological Factors Surrounding Cosmetic Surgery
As a psychologist who works with women about their desire to look good at any age. I encourage them to think about four issues: Safety, Affordability, For Whom and Expectations. Read more...

RECENT Huffington Post ARTICLES BY VIVIAN DILLER:



Vibrant Nation Posts

Your First Mirror
Our very first glimpse of ourselves is likely found in the mirror of our mother’s eyes during infancy. In her glances and later through her words and behaviors we begin to develop a psychological and physical image of ourselves.

2 psychological tips that will change how you look and feel about beauty
Face it: there is no magic solution to aging with grace and dignity. Many of you at Vibrant Nation have written insightful, emotional responses to the previous articles I have submitted here about this topic.
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A Former Model on the Beauty Paradox
My mother's generation of feminists worked very hard to place beauty in the backseat to make room for other choices. Now, some of those same women are confused about whether they should let their appearance matter at all to them..
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A Former Model on Anti-aging
I think we are a generation struggling to find pride. We don’t wear it on our faces enough.
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6 Steps to Beauty for Life
I am often asked why women like Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren seem capable of aging gracefully while so many others - Joan Rivers, Kirstie Alley, Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith (this list can get upsettingly long) - do not. Since I know none of these women personally, I can only guess at the answer.
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ARTICLES FEATURED ON psychologytoday.com:

Men Need a "Lift" Too: Aging Levels the Playing Field
I was about an hour into a live radio show, talking about my new book, Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change, when Lenny, a fellow from the Bronx, called in: "Hey, what about us guys? We feel pressure too!"

"Real" is Really In

About ten years ago, Madison Avenue started casting real looking children in their advertisements, turning away those with the proverbial cherub faces, blonde hair, and blue eyes as too perfect to be believable.

Cosmetics Drugs Gone Too Far: Is Anything Still Real?
There is something about the new cosmetic "option" for thicker eyelashes that bothers me, though I'm not sure what it is. Perhaps it's the resistance I still feel after leaving behind those false lashes I wore while modeling with Wilhelmina in the 70s.

Read Vivian's latest articles on psychologytoday.com


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