Lightening Up with Weight Loss Drugs
Turn on the TV and chances are, on any given evening, you will see commercials for weight loss drugs. The songs have become ear worms. I know you can sing along with “Oh, Oh, Oh, Ozempic” and watch the community
Emotional Eating as a Way of Swallowing Your Feelings
You are sitting in front of the television with a bowl of crunchy, salty popcorn on your lap. As your eyes are fixed on the screen, your hand dips in and out of the bowl and up to your mouth. … Read more
Feeding Our Minds and Emotions
You may have heard the aphorism, “You are what you eat.” Take that a bit further and consider how what you eat has an impact on how you feel as well. There is a treatment modality called nutritional psychiatry which … Read more
Recognizing Teen Eating Disorders
Too often, families dismiss changes in their teen’s eating habits as “normal adolescent behavior,” however experts warn that this may not be true. Eating disorders are never “normal,” and with vigilance parents can help stop a downward spiral before it … Read more
Fitness Is Not Just Physical
We all know that a healthy diet and regular movement increase our physical fitness. But the physical is only part of our make-up as humans. We are whole beings – body, mind and spirit. (We will discuss feeding the spirit … Read more
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The Value of Patience in Healing
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” ~ Othello, William Shakespeare.
Consider the truth of this line from Othello. When your skin is cut, the process of healing begins … Read more
Eating Disorders – Anorexia
To conclude our study of eating disorders, I will tackle anorexia. As with other eating disorders, anorexia stems from a wide variety of emotional, mental, spiritual, and mental causes, although a specific trigger is not yet know. It is … Read more
Eating Disorders: Bulimia
In my last post, I discussed a more newly-identified eating disorder, Orthorexia, an obsession with healthy eating that sometimes so severely limits food intake that it leads to health problems. Let’s continue now with a discussion of Bulimia.
As with … Read more
A Study of Eating Disorders – Orthorexia
As part of the Soul Wisdom Therapy focus on the whole self, I will begin a post series on eating disorders with a little-known (and more newly defined) condition known as Orthorexia.
The American Psychiatric Association has not classified Orthorexia … Read more
