Come on, you can do it. Here, I’ll go first, take my hand…Good job! Although I was surrounded by phenomenal scenery, standing within the midst of a natural waterfall shower and sun-kissed sandstone glory, the vision that seized my heart and overtook my attention was the amazing view of a giggling group…(Read More)
“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” Mistakes are just mistakes (and something that we all do!), unless we tie them to our character and self-worth. Then our simple mistakes, become our shame. Why not forgive yourself your humanness, lick the wounds and pain that naturally come with making mistakes, and congratulate yourself for…(Read More)
There are no statutes of limitation on being loved … For the need to be cherished, valued and loved is as essential to our emotional well-being as oxygen is to our physical survival. If your childhood circumstances caused you to be emotionally neglected, under-parented or simply not “seen” for the amazing person that you…(Read More)
February is National Eating Disorders Awareness month, a topic which is very close to this eating disorder specialist’s heart! For my readers who are engaged in this painstakingly complex journey called “recovery,” I commend you. For you are truly the BRAVEST of spirits! Keep fighting, keep believing and keep working toward the goal of…(Read More)
The irony of my role as a psychologist, who works primarily with adults, is that I spend the majority of my days “re-parenting” clients, due to deficiencies created in childhood! Nothing could be truer than with my beloved obese and eating disordered clients. Problematic eating practices are all-too-often inadvertently created in childhood…(Read More)
“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.” ~Robert A. Heinlein As a child born to teen parents, I had no choice but to learn how to fend for myself. It was called survival. And while difficult, it instilled in me the absolute ability to be self-sufficient, resilient, capable and, as a…(Read More)
