Does the word balance make you go blah? A client of mine felt even more strongly about it. "I've realized that I hate balance", she told me. This announcemen...

It can be tough to be in the middle. I should know, being a middle child and all. ;) But seriously. The middle of recovery isn’t very glamorous. When you’re...

Are you a "resolutions" kind of person? If so, I'm curious about what your resolutions might have sounded like in the past. Were they born from your own brai...

If your mind is a bus, then the voices on that bus sure can go 'round and 'round! I first heard the bus metaphor from Thom Rutledge, LCSW, an awesome therapi...

And it's ok. It took me a while to learn this, though. It was not an easy journey. Along the way, I realized that my struggle had many similarities to eating...

If you've asked yourself this question, rest assured. You aren't the first. I've heard it many times, and for good reason. Recovery is hard, hard, hard. It i...

Have your periods gone missing? Are you wondering why? If your doctor has ruled out another medical cause, you might have functional hypothalamic amenorrhea....

What might make an individual in the Orthodox Jewish community more likely to develop an eating disorder? And what can be done to make this community less vu...

This is a shout-out to my brave clients and to all the courageous individuals out there who are doing the monumental work required in eating disorder recover...

You've been told a hundred times about that miracle drug called exercise and how wonderful it is. All the hype is based on something, because exercise truly ...

Today I took my baby for a check-up, and thanks to the advances of Western medicine, my lucky girl received five (!!!) vaccines. Naturally, we both freaked o...

If you are trying to escape the clutches of chronic dieting or in recovery from an eating disorder, you may have noticed that poor body image was the first t...

Since you’ve probably heard the term “food addiction” thrown around at some point or another, I figured it’s time to shine some light on this issue. Is it ac...

The other day, one of my daughters (aka Little A) had a dilemma. I've given her a chocolate pastry which she thoroughly enjoyed - but now she wanted a drink ...

It's always difficult to tell parents that their child has a problem requiring treatment. Even when the problem is readily apparent. And even if the parents w...

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. - Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2 I love that line. Is it entirely true? Of co...

This is the second post in a two-part series about eating disorders. In the previous post, we highlighted some critical facts to know about eating disorders....

By Dina Cohen, MS RD CEDRD My job sounds like it’s about food, but it’s really about people. I am so fortunate to have a profession in which I can witness pe...

When I ask clients to consider what their eating might look like if they weren’t dieting, some of them describe nightmarish visions of eating an entire choco...

To be blind is bad, but worse it is to have eyes and not to see. Helen Keller Below are some common myths that stand in the way of un-dieting. Let's set the ...