To Say Or Not To Say.. That is The Question?
January 4, 2017 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Addiction, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Featured, Healthy Communication, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Loving Your Body, Nutrition, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Weight Stigma
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” Working in the field of addiction and eating disorders, as well as being in eating disorder recovery myself, I have […]
Healthy and Happy: The Positive Role Team Sports Play on Adolescent Girls
July 29, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Athletes, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Fitness, HAES, Healthy Communication, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Mindfulness, Over-Exercise, Over-Exercise, Prevention, Role Models, Self Esteem, Talking To Kids
Do you remember what middle school was like for you? If you’re like me, you probably try not to remember. Being a teenager is difficult.
Diabulimia: Learning More about your Teen and their Type-1 Diabetes Diagnosis
June 14, 2015 by iaedp
Filed under Anorexia, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Healthy Eating, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Nutrition, Over-Exercise, Over-Exercise, Parents, Prevention, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Treatment, Wellness, What to Say, How to Say It
Graciously reposted from www.LauraCipulloLLC.com Diabulimia is an unofficial term, used by both the American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, to define a serious condition effecting, but not limited to, adolescent girls diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. An adolescent diagnosed with diabulimia (known formally as ED-DMT1) is characterized by the intentional misuse and […]
Helping Men Be More Needy
January 12, 2015 by Chris Kingman
Filed under Guys, Healthy Communication, Mental Health, Sharing Feelings, Substance Abuse
Yes, the title is provocative. Purposefully so. Here’s why. I recall as a kid being perplexed when my mom played her records and I heard Barbra Streisand singing “people who need people are the luuuckiest people in the woooorrrlldd.” Aside from finding mom’s music nauseating, the idea of “needing” other people seemed like weakness and […]
Outsmarting Overeating: Boost Your Life Skills, End your Food Problem
January 12, 2015 by mamaV
Filed under Body Image, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Loving Your Body, Over-Exercise, Recovery, Self-Acceptance
Review by Mary Anne Cohen, Director of The New York Center for Eating Disorders Outsmarting Overeating: Boost Your Life Skills, End your Food Problems By Karen R. Koenig, New World Library, 2015. Karen Koenig is a psychotherapist, educator, eating coach and author of five books on helping people heal their eating problems. In all her […]
codependency & personal power
August 27, 2014 by Chris Kingman
Filed under Addiction, Anxiety, Depression, Empowerment, Featured, Mental Health, OCD, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Compassion
Far too many people have learned to automatically and habitually give away their personal power. Without realizing what they’re doing, they repeatedly idealize other people (particularly authority figures and romantic interests) and then subjugate themselves to those people. Other patterns that often accompany this codependent relational style include: Difficulty in being assertive and in advocating […]
Is Your Trainer Trained?
July 15, 2014 by iaedp
Filed under Athletes, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Fitness, HAES, Loving Your Body, Movement, Over-Exercise, Role Models, Self Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness
Graciously reposted from www.LauraCipulloLLC.com Do you ever wonder what the initials after your trainer’s name stand for? Or what initials should a trainer even have? EALM asked fitness trainer Tiffany Chag, CSCS to let us know what credentials a personal fitness trainer should have and what they mean. Here is her response! Chag shared “It […]
Healthy in the Mind and Body
June 30, 2014 by iaedp
Filed under Anorexia, Athletes, Body Image, Bulimia, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Fitness, HAES, Loving Your Body, Movement, Over-Exercise, Over-Exercise, Self-Care
Graciously reposted from www.LauraCipulloLLC.com You want to be healthy in the mind as well as the body, right? So do you think a gym is a place of healthy attitudes and positive role models? Unfortunately, it’s not always the best place for our mind or bodies especially when we are moving for the wrong reasons. […]
How to love your body. No Seriously!!
March 20, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Anorexia, Athletes, Binge Eating, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Bulimia, Depression, Disordered Eating, Drunkorexia, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Fat Talk, Featured, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mindfulness, Orthorexia, Over-Exercise, Over-Exercise, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Weight Stigma
I see many different lists of how to love your body and improve body image. These lists are often filled with beautiful affirmations and postivity however for many people struggling with negative body image or deep insecurities with their body, affirmations are not enough. I created a simple list of ways to start to challenge […]
When Food Is No Longer the Center of Your Life
February 5, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Addiction, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Featured, Recovery
Although many disregulated eaters yearn for the day when food is no longer the center of their lives, my experience is that when this happens, they experience substantial disquiet within. Much as they’ve waited for food to be just nourishment, they’re not sure what to do with all the open space in their minds—and their […]