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Holidays and Special Occasions
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Written by Joanna Poppink
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 08:47 |
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Mother's Day is upon us. Does this day affect your recovery work?
If it does, do you know why and how to take care of yourself?
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Self-Help
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Monday, 23 April 2012 10:39 |
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Here is the handout I gave part of the all day NAMI The National Alliance on Mental Illness conference in Los Angeles where I presented a workshop to women with eating disorders and to people who want to help a person with an eating disorder recover.
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Holidays and Special Occasions
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Sunday, 08 April 2012 09:50 |
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 Easter and Passover: what a combo. It's a powerful week-end with both commemorations happening at the same time.
How are you doing? Here are some suggestions to make your day more happy.
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Symptoms
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Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:21 |
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 Suppose you see or know or suspect that an employee has an eating disorder. What should you do? I asked Joy Nollenberg to write a guest post about this issue. She is director of The Joy Project. Joy agreed and said readers should be aware that legal issues abound in this realm and that her words are not legal advice. In other words, check out your legal position before embarking on a work place confrontation. Here's what Joy writes.
There may be times when someone in the workplace appears to be very ill with an eating disorder. This can be a difficult situation with many potential pitfalls. It's important to keep these points in mind.
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Psychotherapy and Recovery Work
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Monday, 12 March 2012 16:36 |
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What would you like your mental health clinician to know about helping you understand and resolve your troublesome sex life?
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Food and Weight
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Monday, 07 May 2012 11:39 |
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Yikes. We need to appreciate this phenomena if we want to eat well and avoid obesity. Otherwise we'll get used to those rewards, seek them out and, most likely, misinterpret feelings that cue us to eat.
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Healing Resources
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Friday, 20 April 2012 16:15 |
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 The American Medical Association, AMA, released a new and first of its kind CME granting online class for doctors. It's designed to teach them to be more effective in communicating with patients about eating disorders as well as achieving earlier detection and intervention. What do you think of what is being presented to doctors? Would you like your doctor to take this class? See it here. *(speakers listed below).
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Symptoms
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Sunday, 01 April 2012 18:11 |
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 The Vulnerability of Women with Eating Disorders to Dangerous Sexual Liaisons is an issue I continue to address. The Center for Healthy Sex is sponsoring my three hour class for mental health clinicians on April 7 and granting three CEUs to participants.
Age, looks or smiling faces are not indications of freedom from these dangerous liaisons just as appearance is not reliable evidence indicating the presence or absence of an eating disorder.
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Holidays and Special Occasions
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Saturday, 17 March 2012 08:25 |
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 Happy St. Patrick's Day!
What's your take on luck? Do you have lucky moments? Are you a lucky person?
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Healing Resources
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Monday, 05 March 2012 15:00 |
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Winston, my terrier/corgi friend, has been my co-therapist for about nine years. What makes him so good at it?
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