Taking A Look At Disordered Eating In Our Youth It is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which is a time to focus on helping families and communities gain knowledge about the risk factors that impact the people they love. Why is disordered eating on the rise among our youth and how can we work to shift these young peoples perceptions so to prevent a full blown eating disorder? This is

Teaching People How To Manage Their Moods One of the most common issues that client’s present with in counseling (or therapy) is anxiety. Anxiety is a normal emotion that everyone experiences from time to time, such as feeling nervous, worried, or fearful when facing something new or unfamiliar. However, when worry and fear is constant and blocks you from DOING the things you need or want to do, therapy can

Should My Child See A Therapist? Two of the main reasons I love working with children and adolescents in therapy is how receptive they can be to change and how flexible they can be in making those changes quickly. Sometimes by introducing small changes in the child’s life can lead to a cascade of bigger changes. Individual and family therapy are processes to help your child learn problem-solving strategies and

Successfully Stepping Into The New Year Remember the famous quote, “Life is a marathon, not a sprint,” so go slow and pace yourself? Well, consider for a moment that finding success in achieving your New Year’s resolutions should take on a similar strategy. With so many people setting out to find solutions to the things they would like to start doing, or stop doing, why does it seem as though more and

Change Is A Verb Change is scary, and I am in the business of helping people create change. This is not an easy task considering how uncomfortable change can be for people. I get how difficult it can be as a woman, a wife, a friend, a daughter, a sister, and as a human being. Change is scary. It requires doing something different from what you had been doing that

“Shackles On, Shackles Off” There can be nothing more powerful than the cycles you can get stuck in. The good intentions and efforts you first take to stop the painful experiences with food turn out to be the very behaviors that contribute to the same problem spinning round and round and getting worse. It is an exhausting and confusing circle of what seems to be good solutions, but ultimately takes

How She Relates When I first meet a new client, there are distinct qualities to her that seem to resonate with most all the women I work with who struggle with binge eating or overeating. She is smart, sharp, and strikingly sensitive in a unique way. She is emotionally contained in most areas of her life, exceptionally practical and logical. But down deep, but not too far, she feels completely

Stepping Outside Mainstream Thought A couple of years ago, somebody important to me told me that one day I would do something that would require me to step outside the mainstream. She went on to say that I might even be seen as a heretic, because anyone who steps outside the boundaries of what the majority says is the right way is going to stand out and get good and