Four Secrets to Authentic Love
April 15, 2015 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Featured, Guys, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Livin in the Moment, Self Esteem, Sharing Feelings, Spirituality, Stress Management, Wellness
As the saying goes, “Love is all around us.” Make a commitment today to see and experience love at least once per hour. Try it for a day. Notice the love with which a coworker holds the door for you with a smile. Notice the love between the couple in the car next you […]
Eating Un-favorite Foods
March 6, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Parents, Role Models, Talking To Kids
Graciously re-posted courtesy of www.MomDishesItOut.com So the fish sticks are still a “stinking” issue at our house! As I have shared in previous blog posts—especially “Something More than Fish” and “If You Give a Cat a Cupcake”—on many days, food is something more than just food. And just like I tell my clients, particularly those […]
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 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 […]
Emotional Pain Cannot Be Killed
April 3, 2013 by Chris Kingman
Filed under Addiction, Anxiety, Depression, Featured, Mindfulness, Self-Acceptance
A recent NY Times article stated that “Drug overdose fatalities in New York City tripled between 1990 and 2006, a new study reports, and most of the increase came from the growing abuse of prescription pain medicines.” These statistics simply reinforce what we already know anecdotally: medications designed to alleviate physical pain are increasingly being […]
The Generic Things That Make Us All Exquisitely Sexy
March 15, 2013 by mamaV
Filed under Body Image, Featured, Media Literacy, Mindfulness, Pregnancy, Spirituality
This guest post graciously submitted and re-posted by Kate Fridkis, from Eat The Damn Cake. Because I’ve decided to have a baby at some point, I figured I should learn more about birth. I mean, really, I should learn more about babies and toddlers and children and whatever they turn into after that, god help us, but that all […]
How to Be Beautiful…..the Official Video
January 10, 2013 by mamaV
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care
Check out this wonderful video by Danika Holmes titled “How to be Beautiful” and don’t forget to visit her site. We’re are so grateful to present this to you with her permission.
Why I Heart GIRLS & Lena Dunham’s Body
December 22, 2012 by mamaV
Filed under Body Image, Featured, Loving Your Body, Role Models, Self-Acceptance, Weight Stigma
This guest post graciously submitted by Virginia Sole-Smith I’m a little late to this game since the first season of HBO’s GIRLS ended Sunday night. But if, like me, you don’t schedule your life around appointment television, then you’re probably very appreciative of the fact that I waited a respectful three days before blogging about this so as to […]
5 Steps to Improve Your Body Image!
March 1, 2012 by mamaV
Filed under Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Featured, Loving Your Body, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion
Do you ever wonder how you can improve your body image? It can seem like a daunting task.
What have you done to try and fit in?
June 7, 2010 by MamaV
Filed under Self Esteem
This Guest Post is by Mizfit. Did you ever struggle with not fitting in and caring about that? You seem so confident. As you’ve gotten older do you find it’s easier to be Unapologetically Yourself or is it still something you struggle with (MizFit note: my tagline may state FITNESS isnt about fitting in but […]