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To Improve Your Eating, Flex Your Mindfulness Muscle

Quiet the Urge to Eat Impulsively or Mindlessly, or to Start a

A 3-Part Series on Binge Eating Disorder: Making Peace with Food: Treatments for BED (Part 3)

Binge Eating Disorder is the most common of all the eating disorders [1] and yet, less than half of the people with it ever receive treatment [2]. Why is that? Highly effective treatments for binge ...

A 3-Part Series on Binge Eating Disorder: What Causes BED? (Part 2)

[Part 1: What is BED?] What causes binge eating disorder? Once someone starts binge eating, why is it so difficult to stop? Although there’s no one answer to these questions, scientific studies of ...

A 3-Part Series on Binge Eating Disorder: What is BED? (Part 1)

[Part 2: What Causes Bed?] Binge Eating Disorder (BED) affects 6.5 million Americans– more than anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa combined [1]. However, BED is less commonly discussed, and ...

Thanksgiving Tip: Savor the Joy, It’s Good for You

What is your unique, ideal vision of the Thanksgiving holiday? We have some tips to help you enhance that experience and maintain the positive impact. The latest in neuroscience shows that when you ...

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 capacitiesfor endurance, optimism, ...

Poem: The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the ...

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 ...