You eat less than your body needs. You think about food all the time — planning meals, avoiding meals, regretting meals. You feel the grip of control, perfectionism, anxiety, and guilt after eating even a bite more than you “should.” And yet… you’re not “underweight.”...
Let’s say you’ve struggled with food—eating too much, eating too little, worrying constantly about what and when and how. Or maybe you feel like your body is your enemy, or your emotions are all over the place (or just plain… gone). Now imagine someone tells...
Having some knowledge about healthy eating habits is generally helpful. Implementing such knowledge is even more helpful – to a point. When a person spends an excessive amount of time thinking about the quality of one’s diet and taking great measures to eat in a...
Family Systems (IFS) therapy is based on the idea that we all have various parts or sub-personalities. This is perfectly normal and to be expected. Have you ever thought “part of me wants to stay at home, but another part of me wants to go...
Does it ever seem as if there’s an internal debate going on in your mind? One voice says, “This report which I’ve prepared for my boss sucks”, while another voice tells you that “It’s fine – never mind the typos and grammatical errors”, and a...
True recovery from an eating disorder, be it anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating, or “garden variety” (but no less damaging) compulsive overeating, requires recovery from perfectionism (which doesn’t have to be “perfect”, by the way). It’s so seductive to believe that once we reach...
There’s no getting around it – food is an essential and often extremely pleasurable part of life. (That is, unless you’re a breatharian, a concept I personally cannot understand.) Not only is food necessary for our physical sustenance, but it also figures prominently in many...
When it comes to food, the concept of healthy eating has a host of definitions. Some camps suggest avoiding particular foods entirely, such as sugar or desserts, and indeed there is research to indicate that high-sugar or high-fat foods can fuel addictive behaviors if indulged...
A friend may have confided in you that they are "addicted" to sugar, flour, chocolate, some other food, or even food in general. Or perhaps you have had difficulty putting the lid on a pint of ice cream or closing up a bag of potato...
“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change some past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” (William James) One of the most important differences between optimists and pessimists is that optimists see...