A Thin History Of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders have been around since food, vanity, greed, and addictions. Documents of eating disorder behaviors have been found worldwide. The frequency of self-starvation and purging vary significantly across specific periods of history, indicating that certain...
How do you feel about asking others for help?
The Holidays are over and one thing I noticed, as I wrestled the dead Christmas tree out of the house with a fever of a 102. I need to learn to ask for help! How do you feel about asking others for help? I’ve noticed that many of us, myself included, get a little...
Holiday Self-Care Tips That Will Take The Stress Away From “Stress Eating.”
Holiday Self-Care Tips That Will Take The Stress Away From “Stress Eating.” The holidays are packed with stress, and we all know the easiest, safest, most affordable place to relieve that stress is in a plate of stuffing or ginger bread, a box of Christmas cookies,...
Dear Santa, All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth?
Dear Santa, Listen Cringle... I'm in a bad way... I don't have time to make your naughty list; all I do is binge and purge. Got a time machine? How's about a ray gun that zaps calories with little to no fuss. At this rate I'll be dead before the 25th or asking the...
Thanksgiving And Eating Go Together, But Thanksgiving And Eating Disorders Do Not.
This is for everyone! When it comes to Turkey Day and eating disorders the whole holiday and the days leading up to it are filled with anxiety, stress and over exercise (well, to each their own.) An estimated 10 million Americans will be “freaking the Fuuuuck out”...
Welcome Back To The War Against Self
Last blog I brought up the questions. Why do we reach outside ourselves for love? Is it possible to accept ourselves just the way we are and if so how? Why? The other day I had this amazing one-hour meditation, where I could feel the vibrations tingling from my...
Self-Buckling
Self-buckling - Wikipedia Self-buckling. A column can buckle due to its own weight with no other direct forces acting on it, in a failure mode called self-buckling. Failure mode, I am way too familiar with this setting! Self-sabotage, is about to put its grip on my...
Grabbing Tissues instead of Cereal: Learning to Grieve without ED
“Look Mom I am Grieving without Bingeing!” Here I am again sitting at my computer with a box tissues and a head full of introspective, psychological thoughts that only make me, "koko for Coco Puffs." Hmmm, yummmm, coco puffs!! Cereal killing sounds good right...
Brace Yourself Winter Is Coming
Winter Is Coming!! Most of us learned about the four seasons when we were younger, about spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Considering I grew up and still live in Southern California, there are really only two seasons: beach season and cute boots/sweater season. Now...
Childhood Obesity Month
With nearly one in three children in the United States being overweight or obese, now is the time to support the health of our next generation. First let’s get informed or as the kids say, “schooled!” What does obese mean? Means a child is more than 20% over their...