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Health Benefits of Friendships

How to Nurture Friendships “Lying, thinking / Last night / How to find my soul a home / Where water is not thirsty / And bread loaf is not stone / I came up with one thing / And I don’t believe I’m wrong / That nobody, / But nobody / Can make it out

Finding Freedom: Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

Having a growth mindset can give you freedom in many areas of your life. Learn how to put less energy into looking perfect and direct your efforts into learning. You’ve probably heard the famous ...

February 25, 2021

Accept Your Body, Accept Your Tree

The Love Your Tree campaign is exciting. It offers an opportunity to refine what it means to be healthy and to celebrate body diversity. So how do you begin to love your tree? It starts with ...

November 30, 2020

Struggling with food? Don’t give up!

Advice from people who have fully recovered from binge eating, compulsive eating, and emotional eating If you’ve tried diets and cleanses that haven’t worked, you’re not alone. Fad-based eating ...

November 2, 2020

Binge Eating: Bridging Science & Practice

I feel like Sisyphus — condemned to an eternity of rolling a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll down again each time I get it to the top A person describing what it’s like to have ...

Full Recovery From Bulimia: What does it take?

Studies conducted in the last three decades have repeatedly shown that psychotherapy is more effective in treating bulimia than antidepressants, placebos, or control conditions where people do not ...

What Steve Jobs can Teach You About Meditation and Recovery

Steve Job’s words can enhance recovery If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when ...

What Happens When You Leave the Isolation of Anorexia Nervosa Behind: A Clinical Perspective

As I sit with clients who face the steps of recovery from anorexia nervosa, it is the desires to be close, to offer closeness, to be held, to hold, to be understood, and to understand that are some ...

Your Brain on Altruism: The science behind holiday do-gooding

The holiday season comes with an onslaught of requests for your time and money: envelopes from non-profits arriving to ask for donations, soup kitchens requesting volunteers, and even the ringing ...

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