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Inspiring Women, Inspiring Lives
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:54 |
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Women say amazing things about their lives and about each other. Let me know if any of these quotes speak to you.
"Our strength is often composed of the weaknesses we're damned if we're going to show."
Mignon McLaughlin author of The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963.
I can own up to this one. Other people consider me a well organized person. Hah. Organization is my weakest suit.
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Culture and Media
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:06 |
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Eating Disorder thinking seems to be ignored by FDA advisors. The newest advisory coming out of the FDA on Medscape News runs this headline over a thorough article by Michael O'Riordan:
FDA Advisors Recommend Approval of Obesity Drug Qnexa
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Self-Help
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:54 |
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A health magazine is asking for tricks men and women can use to stay motivated on a weight loss program. (sigh). The real trick in losing and maintaining weight loss is to engage with your illogical emotional mind.
If you are overweight, reaching and sustaining a healthy weight requires you to develop and embrace the patience and stamina of the long distance runner. A sprint will get you far fast and then leave you exhausted in a heap, probably reaching for chocolate.
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Healing Your Hungry Heart -
Chapter Excerpt
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Sunday, 12 February 2012 12:45 |
“Commitment is what you stand on to breath, attend to your body sensations, and courageously make your mindful moves.”
--Joanna Poppink
…Recovery brings you here. The more you can bear to be here, the less you are agonizingly nowhere and the less you need oblivion. You understand this now, but it’s easy to forget when a trigger hits home.
Triggers are hooks that summon emotional experiences of other times when you were frightened, harmed, and helpless. When you succumb to a trigger, you feel a sense of guilt, shame, and failure as you add another layer of fear punishment, and helplessness to your original experience. In this way the power of triggers intensifies over time.
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Psychotherapy and Recovery Work
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Wednesday, 08 February 2012 10:15 |
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An emotionally painful recurring image of a frightened child described in a comment on my site stays with me. I'm responding here because this type of imagery affects many people in or near doing deep recovery work. Eating disorder behaviors create a false promise of rescue. What follows are ten tips for genuine resolution.
The commenter wrote:
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Symptoms
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 13:08 |
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 Research is showing that fading vision is part of the anorexia experience.
Anorexia deteriorates the body like a fast forward of the aging process. We now know that 17 year old girls with severe anorexia can have the fragile bones of what used to be considered a symptom of old age: osteoporosis . What my physiology professor at UCLA called "over forty eyes" when he reached for his reading glasses, is becoming noticeable in women of all ages who starve. How is your vision lately?
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