The holiday blues
The holidays are often filled with grief, comparison, magnified anxiety, financial concerns, and familial dysfunction.
Uncovering Attachment: What Happened Then And How It Impacts Us Now
Attachment is directly tied to your earliest developmental years and is significant for our future functioning in life and relationships.
HuffPost: Are You In A ‘Permacrisis’? Here’s How To Tell.
Our brains were designed to notice any sign of danger, whether that be physical, emotional or social. And our reaction is where the common term “fight or flight” (which also includes “fawn” and “freeze”) comes in. The continuation of that response can lead to a permacrisis.
Eating Disorders and the Holidays: Setting Yourself Up for Success
The holiday season can be an especially challenging time for individuals with eating disorders, as well as for their friends, family members, and loved ones.
Soothing Techniques For High Anxiety
Before I share some of my soothing techniques for these moments of high anxiety, I want to share with you a personal story.
Self Love And Eating Disorders
I recently came across a post that read, “It’s crazy how I adore women of all body sizes and shapes, but I can’t accept my own.” It was a moment where I sat there and pondered for a moment how eating disorders begin. Seconds ago, I was sifting through political post after political post, nearly clicking off the application, when I saw this. Why does this resonate so much?
Let’s Talk About Anger
Interestingly, anger is one of the most powerful emotions we can feel, yet one of the feelings that often lays dormant in our mind and body due to our lack of appropriate/healthy expression.
Societal Changes and Mental Health
September 11 is a daunting day for those across the nation after terrorist attacks rocked our world on this day 19 years ago. I had no idea at that young age, what societal changes would occur how they would affect our mental health.