Body image is a deeply sensitive and personal issue that affects people of all ages and genders. At this time of the year, heading into the spring break season that leads into summer, we will start hearing statements like this from our clients: I can’t go on that...
Life can sometimes feel very hard and full of stress but there are ways to overcome this. The COVID pandemic is far from over, but life moves on, and we must find a return to a “new” normal. At the same time, people are struggling with multiple stressors outside of...
We need to learn to care for our body the way it is today, right here and right now. For many this time of year, the seeming answer to feeling better about themselves and improving body image means losing weight or other means of changing their body. But having the...
The Thanksgiving holiday can be filled with dread when you are working on recovery from an eating disorder or letting go of diets. Living in diet culture, we are surrounded by people inadvertently judging food choices, while at the same time commenting on their own...
Yes, getting the proper amount of calcium can help you build stronger bones and prevent osteoporosis. In my last blog post, I shared with you Part 1 in my series focused on Risk and Screening for Osteoporosis at midlife. Today’s focus will be on dietary changes you...
From having a “gut” instinct to “feeling” something in your gut, our GI tract plays a critical role in the health and well-being of our entire body. Our gut – more specifically, the gut microbiome –is literally a second brain that plays a role in our moods, our immune...
Self-Care is important to your overall health. This morning I spoke with a new client whose doctor told her she must lose weight; that her weight gain since COVID has led to her developing some health concerns. This was quite distressing, as you can imagine; she...
This pandemic has been wreaking havoc on our collective mental health – mine included! I was fortunate to receive a COVID vaccine and escaped cold and snowy New York to visit my mother and sister in sunny Florida. There is something genuinely life-affirming about warm...
How do we develop a healthy habit? While attempting to feel productive during the quarantine, I cleaned out my desk drawers and came upon some old planners. Leafing through these planners, I kept noticing the same two goals atop each page – to exercise and meditate....
Emotional eating is taking on a whole new meaning during this Pandemic. Some people are finding that stress is decreasing their appetite and interest in food. Other people are using food to self-soothe as they are overcome with anxiety, stress, boredom or …fill in the...
Honestly, it’s been a really rough few weeks. Here in New York, this pandemic has loomed large. And while some of us are channeling our stress into making comfort foods (chicken pot pie – recipe here), baking bread (my son), or cleaning closets (my friend), still...
How sad that, in our culture, a woman’s relationship with her body often causes insecurity, fear, self-doubt, shame, guilt, low self-esteem, and all too often, self-hatred. The statistics are downright shocking; more than 5-10 million girls and women and 1 million...
According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), compulsive exercise is not recognized as a specific eating disorder per se, but many people struggle with symptoms associated with this term. Serious health consequences can result from compulsive or...
In our culture today, women* fear weight gain, at all costs, as well as aging. Perimenopause and Menopause are two words that conjure up fear in the hearts and minds of most women* and also people who are assigned female at birth. Diet culture promotes middle-aged...
Join me for a MASTERCLASS ON POSITIVE BODY IMAGE and HEALING! If you are suffering with eating and body image problems, you know you’re fighting an uphill battle to reclaim health – in mind and body, in our crazy diet culture that is increasingly out of balance....
Our culture has mistakenly taught us that the Barbie doll figure is what we should be aiming for. Well, I'm calling Bullsh!t on this. A Barbie doll figure – even the new curvy Barbie - is not the norm for most women nor will it ever be how the majority of us will ever...
My recent vacation was LONG overdue and I've realized I need to do more self-care! I realized this after I had a crazy few weeks of double-booking patients, forgetting to return phone calls, and snapping at close family and friends. I had needed a respite much sooner...
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