If you’ve been following me for a bit, you know I greatly admire the work of Dr. Dan Siegel. I am grateful to both a therapist and a colleague for recommending his work, which I have found extremely helpful both personally and professionally. He works in the field...
I want to share with you something that came out of a client visit a few days ago. Obviously for confidentiality reasons I won’t share personal or detailed information about her case, but I do want to share how we made sense of what she was feeling at the time. I...
I recently read an article in which Alanis Morissette addresses her struggle with an eating disorder. I appreciated her comments for a couple of reasons. One, she is willing to tell her story, which can often help others accept and understand their own struggles and...
Here are phrases I hear often: “Once I stop eating _______, I just can’t stop.” “I can’t help myself, it just happens.” “I can’t trust myself around _________ .” You get the idea. Hearing those phrases never sit right with me. Probably because that’s what I...
I bet you have seen this before. It’s Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and I feel really helps us understand why eating concerns, worries, frustrations and anxieties can feel all-consuming. When your basic need of food, eating and nourishment is not being...
