De-Stress Your Holidays by Taking Charge and Changing You!
Well, if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten! If you want to be less stressed, then YOU MUST CHANGE…
Parents Need to Teach Resiliency and Distress Tolerance in Children
I often see children and adults coming in for counseling because they are medicating or numbing themselves out to avoid the overwhelming feelings they have when things happen in life. …
If Making Comments About Someone’s Weight is NOT Helpful Then What Is?
There was an interesting article in TIME that cited a study from Health Psychology titled: You Exercise Less When You Think Life Isn’t Fair http://time.com/3595856/obesity-overweight-exercise/ . The 'why try' effect gets in…
Diabulimia, the Eating Disorder You’ve Never Heard Of
Diabulimia, the Eating Disorder You've Never Heard Of In my 32 years practicing as a Registered Dietitian I have definitely seen the incidence of this practice increasing! Like the article…
Is it Perfectionism or People Pleasing Behavior or Anxiety or Is It Really a Coping Mechanism?
Our thoughts and beliefs often fall into patterns that then direct our behaviors. When someone comes in and says, "I feel like I am never good enough" they are often…