What’s on Your Plate?
What’s on your plate? I bet it tells a lot about what’s going on in your life right now. Our eating parallels our life in many ways. I was reminded of this while reading Geneen Roth’s latest book ‘Women, Food...
Intuitive Eating Groups Starting Soon!
Free Eating Disorder Screenings
Early detection of eating disorders correlates to success in recovery. Walden Behavioral Care is offering free eating disorder screenings this week in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. “Millions of Americans have life-threatening eating disorders, yet studies show that most people...
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
It’s National Eating Disorders Awareness week! To learn more about this national campaign to increase awareness and early recognition of eating disorders at the NEDA website click here. Also, here are a couple local events to check out: Tuesday, February 22nd,...
The Blessing of Food
I’m reading a book by psychologist Wendy Mogel, PhD called ‘The Blessing of a Skinned Knee’. Drawing from traditional Jewish teachings and years of work as a family therapist she provides readers with strategies for raising compassionate, self-reliant children. The book is a...
Women and Emotional Eating
There are many reasons to eat. We eat to fill a physical need; our stomach growls and we know it’s time to refuel. We eat when we’re happy, sad or angry and sometimes because we’re bored. We eat to pass the time or...
Infusing Compassion into the “War” on Obesity
A dietitian posted this article on twitter and it is so well-written, I decided to include it here. We have to look at the effects of this “war” on obesity and ask ourselves “what are we really fighting?”. So often...
Cleansing
One of the latest trends in dieting is cleansing. The idea behind cleansing is that you can detoxify your body by eating exclusively fruits and vegetables in either in whole or liquid form for a certain period of time. There are many...
How Mothers Can Help Daughters with Body Image
A mother’s willingness to look at and work on her own food and body issues goes along way to help her daugher. You don’t have to be perfect! In fact, it would be surprising if living in our culture, you...
Tackling Fear in Eating Disorder Recovery
Fear can either motivate you or paralyze you. Many psychologist use the phrase “feel the fear and do it anyway” in relation to taking risks in life. I often use this phrase myself with clients. Eating disorders are by nature avoidant...
Weighty Dinner Conversations
I find it ironic yet not surprising that people end up talking about dieting around the dinner table. These conversations are particularly common during the holidays. As a culture we’re obsessed with food and weight. We love to eat but...
