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Eating Disorders: Reversing Short or Long Relapse
Eating Disorders Today | March 9th 2008 by JoannaP
I'm in the middle of attending a great conference at UCLA this week end. It's "Adult Attachment in Clinical Context: Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview." Superb and gifted researchers and clinicians are gathered to discuss and share infor read more
Bias Confession from an Eating Disorders Specialist
Eating Disorders Today | March 3rd 2008 by JoannaP
My patients and readers live their own lives with their own agendas and values leading the way. However, I am not neutral. I want, with all my heart, for them to live long healthy lives. I want them to be well, to have love, joy, satisfaction, confid read more
Things to Do During National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (or…
Eating Disorders Today | February 25th 2008 by JoannaP
Sign the National Eating Disorders Association’s Declaration of Independence from a Weight- Obsessed World to free yourself from the three D’s: Dieting, Drive for Thinness, and Body Dissatisfaction. Celebrate Fearless Friday - A Day Wit read more
Miss America, Anorexia, Fear: Hiding in Plain Sight?
Eating Disorders Today | February 23rd 2008 by JoannaP
Carrie, on ED-Bites wrote an indignant response to what I consider a rather cavalier column about eating disorders in the New York Daily News. Carrie said her own anorexia was based not on controlling weight or the external world but on controlling f read more
Eating Disorders and Body Appreciation
Eating Disorders Today | February 20th 2008 by JoannaP
What if we step away from body appreciation as an aesthetic consideration that relates to weight and appearance? An exercise or meditation to open up communication between mind, heart and body is this: 1. Let the mind relax with all the judgments. 2. read more
Eating Disorders and Body Communication
Eating Disorders Today | February 19th 2008 by JoannaP
Much material I read and hear about eating disorders concerns how a person feels and thinks about her body. But not much has come to my attention that relates to how the body thinks and feels. How the body thinks and feels may be a concept that requi read more
Imagery and Intuition regarding Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Today | February 18th 2008 by JoannaP
The Marion Woodman three day Dreams workshop was warm, challenging and wonderful. I’ve been wondering what to share with you. Dream work is so personal, but then, so is eating disorder recovery. The most powerful image I had, toward the end of the read more
Expect Some Dreamy Posts!
Eating Disorders Today | February 8th 2008 by JoannaP
“Dreams” is the title of the seminar I’ll be taking this week end in Santa Barbara with Marion Woodman (a talk) and Steve Aizenstat. Integrating a person’s inner life with her outer life in harmony and health has long been crucial, in my expe read more
Awakening to Eating Disorder Recovery
Eating Disorders Today | February 7th 2008 by JoannaP
How does a person with an eating disorder take genuine action that will realistically create a solid recovery path? How does she maintain her sense of purpose so she keeps to that path despite painful challenges? These are two of many vital questions read more
Does Advertising Effect Eating Disorders?
Eating Disorders Today | February 1st 2008 by JoannaP
A recent Hubpages blog raised the question: Does advertising effect eating disorders? In my opinion, much of current advertising promotes both tiny size fashion in clothes and huge portion size in food. It's an impossible combination many people stri read more
How Long Does It Take to Recover from Buliimia or Anorexia? Part…
Eating Disorders Today | January 25th 2008 by JoannaP
Why does recovery from anorexia or bulimia take years? Because vital developmental tasks must be addressed, and development takes time. Let’s look at what needs to be accomplished in recovery. Eating disorders develop to serve a protective psycholo read more
Professional Boundaries with Eating Disorder Patients: considerin…
Eating Disorders Today | January 22nd 2008 by JoannaP
(elaborating on my comment in Eating Disorders for Professionals Blog) Today, happily, we have evidence based scientific research to back up the use of our humanity in our clinical work with patients. Appropriate boundaries between patient and psycho read more
Perspectives on Eating Disorder Recovery and Relapse
Eating Disorders Today | January 19th 2008 by JoannaP
A thirty-three year old man wrote to me saying he had been a binge eater most of his life and now was fully recovered because food has been a non issue for two years. Of course, I am glad he is happy with the strides he has made in his life. But his read more
Boyfriend Wants to Help His Girlfriend Who Suffers from Anorexia
Eating Disorders Today | January 17th 2008 by JoannaP
A young man wrote asking how to help the woman he loves. She is anorexic. They've been together for a little over a year. He says one good thing about the situation is that she is aware of her condition and has begun to talk with him about it. He is read more
Recent Flurry of Blog Posts Regarding Family Dinner Research
Eating Disorders Today | January 14th 2008 by JoannaP
Love is left out of the eating disorder prevention equation yet again. Eating disorder prevention does not mean following a check list of correct behaviors at the dinner table. It means behaving reasonably and practically with a powerful undertone of read more
Facing Unseen Physical Problems caused by Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Today | January 14th 2008 by JoannaP
* "Obviously, my body doesn't believe a word my brain is saying." Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes Collection The osteoporosis aspect of eating disorders doesn't seem to be a concern to people in the throes of their eating disorder. Osteoporosis doesn't h read more
Helpful Quiz, Ability to Conceive, Osteoporosis
Eating Disorders Today | January 13th 2008 by JoannaP
Breaking the Mirror posted answers http://www.breakingthemirror.com/ Quiz Answers!January 11, 2008 to a to a ten point eating disorder quiz posted on a teen fashion site. Posting this quiz is a wonderful idea. It helps provide clear information that read more
Eating Disorder In-patient and Residential Treatment
Eating Disorders Today | January 7th 2008 by JoannaP
A worried mother called me this morning, concerned that she had not yet received my eating disorder in-patient/residential treatment program list. http://www.poppink.com/list.html I was on vacation in Maui with my family and couldn't send the list un read more
Emergency Hospitalization, Eating Disorder, Coming Home
Eating Disorders Today | January 5th 2008 by JoannaP
Yes, you can help your eating disorder recovery by ordering your environment. Jeremy asks in his blog http://jeremygillitzer.blogspot.com/ if bringing his home into order will help him stabilize after his emergency six week hospitalization for eating read more
Hung Over or Exhausted or Frightened?
Eating Disorders Today | January 3rd 2008 by JoannaP
The week after New Years can be tough. Fantasies around New Years may be more powerful than Christmas wishes. New Years is often a time of hope for the end of eating disorder symptoms. You hope for the beginning of a new and true love. You hope that read more
Bulimia Emergency Tips for New Years
Eating Disorders Today | January 1st 2008 by JoannaP
When your gut trembles and aches with fear, when your upper arms seem to vibrate on their own, when the back of your throat aches, when what you see begins to have an unreal quality you are experiencing raw vulnerability that is a prelude to a binge/ read more
Symptoms are not people
Eating Disorders Today | November 26th 2007 by JoannaP
People with eating disorders often don't know the difference between their symptoms and who they authentically are. Our culture doesn''t help. Women and men are often applauded for some symptoms and criticized for others because our culture doesn't r read more
Early Inspiration in Eating Disorder Recovery
Eating Disorders Today | November 26th 2007 by JoannaP
Eating Disorders define a person's life. An eating disorder requires intelligence, strategy, commitment, endurance, strength, organization and secrecy, money, acting skills, ability to influence, persuade and manipulate others repeatedly. I'll go Int read more
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