Now that Thanksgiving is over, it seems like everyone is pulling out their holiday lights, Christmas stockings, yard decorations – and scales! Nowadays, concern over holiday weight gain is as much a part of our holiday culture as is Rudolph and mistletoe, candy canes and menorahs. While it’s easy to think that December weight gain…(Read More)
Our country’s codependent relationship with calories is backfiring, and continues to fuel an already out of control obesity epidemic. Intuitive eating is a liberating approach to food that supports healthy weight control and challenges our nation’s obsession with dieting. Timely and necessary, intuitive eating offers a crucial shift in a tired perspective that…(Read More)
“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” Mistakes are just mistakes (and something that we all do!), unless we tie them to our character and self-worth. Then our simple mistakes, become our shame. Why not forgive yourself your humanness, lick the wounds and pain that naturally come with making mistakes, and congratulate yourself for…(Read More)
The irony of my role as a psychologist, who works primarily with adults, is that I spend the majority of my days “re-parenting” clients, due to deficiencies created in childhood! Nothing could be truer than with my beloved obese and eating disordered clients. Problematic eating practices are all-too-often inadvertently created in childhood…(Read More)
“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.” ~Robert A. Heinlein As a child born to teen parents, I had no choice but to learn how to fend for myself. It was called survival. And while difficult, it instilled in me the absolute ability to be self-sufficient, resilient, capable and, as a…(Read More)
In the past, as the mother of two young children, I found myself saying, “Use Your Words!” as I worked to help teach my developing girls how to express their needs, wants and desires in a language that others could readily understand. Now, as the mother of two soon-to-be adolescent girls, I find…(Read More)