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Meditation: Tune into Your Recovery Thoughts, Quiet the Eating Disorder

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 it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things. That’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things

The Problem With Doing Your Best

From an early age, we’re taught by parents and teachers to “try our best”, and many of us carry this lesson with us as we grow older. Intuitively, focusing on doing the best we can with the ...

As Vacations Approach, Is More Diet Talk Inevitable?

For people trying to recover from eating disorders, the pervasive, socially acceptable increase in diet talk –as spring break and summer vacations approach– can be very stressful and ...

Do You Overeat When Feeling Down? Try this…

Most of us have found ourselves eating to soothe a negative mood. Although it can work temporarily, hopefully it is not your go-to or only strategy to make yourself feel better. You’re better ...

Staying Body Positive in Pregnancy: Five Tips

As I enter my third trimester, very visibly pregnant, I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenges moms-to-be face in maintaining a body positive attitude. First off, it’s astounding the number ...

Love, Simon: It Reminds Us We are a Social & Caring Species

Darwin argued that we are a profoundly social and caring species. This idea… that our tendencies toward sympathy are instinctual and evolved (and not some cultural construct as so many have ...

Binging and Bipolar: The link between mood instability and overeating

In an ideal world, our eating would be determined only by our hunger. In reality, however, eating is often related to our emotions– that’s why we call some foods “comfort foods” or talk ...

Want to Improve Your Body Image? Try this…it’s not what you think

Instead of mercilessly judging and criticizing yourself for various inadequacies or shortcomings, self-compassion means you are kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings – after ...

Redefining Recovery as the Glory of Winning: A Clinical Perspective

Athletes have a singular focus. They strive to win. When I work with them on the psychological aspects of their sport, I am awed. They have great capacities–for endurance, optimism, ...

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