How Can We Eliminate Fat Chat Forever?
July 10, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Anxiety, Body Image, Bullying, Depression, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Loving Your Body, Mental Health, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness
I’ve wondered about this since I was in eighth grade. I stood in the lunchroom after school waiting for the bus by myself. None of my few friends were on a late bus so I was alone. Carla* sauntered up with Kerri*, who had the same birthday as me. I was wearing my brand new […]
Negative Emotions: Toxic or Healthy?
April 1, 2014 by Chris Kingman
Filed under Anxiety, Depression, Empowerment, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Wellness
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.” —Carl Jung Experiencing negative emotions is an unavoidable dimension of human life: fear, anger, jealousy/envy, anxiety, depression, insecurity, hopelessness, inadequacy, etc. We all grapple with these feelings at one time or another and on any given day their intensity can be minute, moderate or severe. Either way, […]
Finding the Artist within: Art Therapy and Eating Disorders
January 20, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Anorexia, Art Therapy, Athletes, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Creative Art, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Expressive Arts, Expressive Arts Therapies, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Music, Orthorexia, Over-Exercise, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management, Treatment, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness, Writing and Poetry
Art Therapy has been a powerful and effective coping skill that the eating disorder community has embraced for decades. Art therapy helps and challenges a person to create and to reflect on the process of the art making experience and the art work they create. This process is powerful especially for someone who is suffering […]
The Trick Is Not “Not Minding”
December 10, 2013 by Jodi Rubin
Filed under Body Image, Depression, Freedom, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings
Gaius Mucius is at the center of this story about conquering pain. As a young Roman in the 6th Century B.C. he was captured and threatened with being burned alive. To prove his courage, he stuck his right hand into the fire until it burned, thereby losing his right hand and earning the name “Scaevola” […]
The Invisible Line: Finding your voice and setting your boundaries
December 4, 2013 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Activism, Anorexia, Anxiety, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Empowerment, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings
Boundaries and assertiveness for many people these words bring upon anxiety, fear and represent a negative task. For many people the ability to stand up for their inner needs and wants can be very difficult. Often times many people I encounter hold many of their emotions and thoughts within themselves. I know especially for the […]
Hope For The Holidays
December 4, 2013 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Anorexia, Anxiety, Binge Eating, Bulimia, Depression, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Freedom, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management, Treatment, Wellness
The holidays can be a very magical and special time for many people around the world but for others the holidays equate stress, anxiety, sadness or anger. This can be for a variety of reasons, familial issues, relationship issues, money issues, health issues the list goes on. For some reason the holiday season is the […]
anger management & the holidays
November 19, 2013 by Chris Kingman
Filed under Addiction, Anxiety, Featured, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management
Shortly after the holidays there is an uptick in people seeking therapy in NYC for anger management. It’s as if many of the feelings we have about family dynamics and relationships lie dormant, like sludge, at the bottom of a calm pond until the holidays burst into our lives like roaring speed-boats stirring up waves […]
Low-Fat Love 101: The Codes of Female Friendship
September 29, 2013 by Patricia Leavy
Filed under Empowerment, Role Models, Sharing Feelings
I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately, especially female friendship. I have the most amazing women friends, and as cliché as it sounds, I can’t imagine my life without them. They are such a value-added in so many different ways. Some of them are going through tough times which makes me think about all […]
Low-Fat Love 101: The Economics of Romance
September 1, 2013 by Patricia Leavy
Filed under Finances, Finding Your Voice, Sharing Feelings
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about social class, identity and intimate relationships. My latest novel American Circumstance, explores appearance versus reality; how our lives and relationships look versus how we experience them and the role social class plays in all of this. In the book I tried to provide a backstage view to the […]
Promoting a Healthy Body Image in Your Home
July 10, 2013 by ANAD
Filed under Body Image, Disordered Eating, Empowerment, Exercise, Featured, Fitness, HAES, Healthy Communication, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Moms & Sisters, Parents, Prevention, Role Models, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Sharing Feelings, Talking To Kids, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness, What to Say, How to Say It
As a child, I grew up in a very traditional, Italian home where dinner each night was by far the best part of my day. It was a time when my family of five would gather around the table, talking, laughing and sharing delicious fare together. Food was always a part of our lives and […]
