The way you see yourself affects all other aspects of your life. It shows up in how you speak to other people, how you walk into a room, and even—or, maybe especially— how you have sex .

Typically, we think of body image issues in relation to women. I know: What a shocker considering we’re only constantly barraged since basically birth with ideas of how we’re “supposed” to look. But, in the age of “ looksmaxxing ,” “hardmaxxing,” and other male beauty trends , it seems as though the spotlight is starting to shine intensely on men, too.

“Men are bombarded with an ‘ideal’ body: lean, muscular, always in shape,” therapist Phillip Reynolds, MSW, LCSW-C tells Cosmopolitan.…