When You Can’t Get What You Really Want, You Eat
April 6, 2016 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Empowerment, Finding Your Voice, Prevention, Recovery, Self-Care, Stress Management
When dysregulated eaters think they can’t get what they really want in life, they too often turn to food. They’re not hungry (not a smidge!), but end up on a mission to find something edible to satisfy them. And heaven help anyone who gets in their way. I know just what this process is like […]
Making Decisions via Pride and Shame
August 5, 2015 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Recovery, Self-Care
I thought I’d written on this topic before because it’s something I talk about all the time with clients, but I couldn’t find a blog about making decisions by the pride-and-shame method. This is a very simple way to make choices. It totally bypasses internal conflicts and focuses only on how the decision will make […]
Responding to Fat Shaming
June 3, 2015 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Body Image, Loving Your Body, Self-Acceptance
The subject of being bullied, teased or shamed in childhood for being fat comes up often on my Food and Feelings message board and in talking with clients. If you have let these experiences from long ago shape how you feel about your body and self today, it’s time for a new take on the […]
4 Tips to Feeding Your Inner Self with Self Care
May 8, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Fat Acceptance, Featured, Food Revolution, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Prevention, Self Esteem, Self-Care, Wellness
In order to survive and create balance, start connecting with your true self. In a world of external focus where a scale determines your worth and your salary defines your success, you need to turn inward to find wellness and well-being. In order to survive and create balance, start connecting with your inner core — […]
Positive Self-Talk with a Twist
November 5, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Depression, Disordered Eating, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Recovery, Self Esteem, Stress Management, What to Say, How to Say It
Who doesn’t know that it’s better to speak positively than negatively to yourself as a foundation for transformation? Hopefully all of you. Now here’s a new twist: when speaking to yourself, replacing the “I” word with “you” or your own name. Studying “the pronouns people use when they talk to themselves silently, inside their minds,” […]
What’s Your Normal?
October 1, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Care
If you’re being emotionally, verbally, physically or sexually abused by your partner, you’ll likely have difficulty becoming a “normal” eater because of what you accept as “normal” in your domestic life. Several points about such misperceived normalcy were made in Time magazine (9/22/14) after the release of the video of NFL player Ray Rice beating […]
Don’t Tell Yourself You Don’t Care Around Food
March 5, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Empowerment, Featured, Healthy Coping, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Livin in the Moment, Obesity, Recovery, Self-Care, Treatment, What to Say, How to Say It
Do you know the three words you never want to say to yourself when you’re faced with eating decisions? “I don’t care.” Say them and you know what food- and body-abusing road you’re heading down. The fact is, you do care. You care, you care, you care! Not long ago, I was privy to observing […]
Why is an eating disorder so powerful?
January 2, 2014 by Joanna Poppink
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, Healthy Eating, Obesity, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Weight Stigma, Wellness
You want to stop acting out your eating disorder, but your good intentions fall by the wayside and you find yourself bingeing or purging or restricting again. What is the power that governs your eating disorder behavior? mystery. pix*
Neutralizing Your Response to Your Body
March 12, 2013 by ANAD
Filed under Anorexia, Binge Eating, Body Image, Bulimia, Bullying, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Loving Your Body, Parents, Recovery, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Sharing Feelings, Talking To Kids, Weight Stigma, Wellness
There are thousands of messages in the world that tell us that we are not perfect enough, not pretty enough, not thin enough. Most of these messages originate with the media. The media has been shaping our cultural norms for decades. The media preys on our humanness, our desire to fit in, our desire […]