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Sexual Exploitation of Adult Women with Eating Disorders

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Category: Symptoms

Sexual Exploitation and Vulnerable Women's Fantasies

Often in my practice a new patient comes in with a distorted perception of the sexual exploitation in her life. She may have a stalker. She may have a boyfriend or husband who manipulates and uses her sexually. Sometimes she knows it and is afraid. Sometimes she knows it and feels ashamed she can't live up to his expectations.

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Binge Eat or Starve: Importance of an Eating Schedule

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Category: Healing Resources

Binge Eating or Starving: Why an eating schedule helps

An eating schedule, a regular and reliable timing for providing yourself with life sustaining nourishment is essential for all living beings.  For eating disorder recovery to begin and last, the first challenge is to accept yourself as a human being. That may sound obvious and absurd to even mention. But, if you binge eat you must eat. If you starve you must eat. If you purge you must eat. If you want recovery you have to eat.

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Stabilize Anxiety through Self-Care

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Category: Culture and Media

*pix Your health, strength, courage and will can spread healing love in this world.  Stay committed to your recovery. The world needs you.

Anxiety: How Does Self-Care Help?

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Anxiety and the Pandemic: How you can understand and help yourself

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Category: Psychotherapy and Recovery Work

Anxiety and Stress during a Pandemic

We are not living in ordinary times. Anxiety grows. Our reasonable adaptations for stress may not serve us well when stressors comes every day and sometimes ever hour. We suffer emotionally when the stability of our economics, our politics, our relationships, our health, our physical safety and the safety of those we love is continually threatened. Finding balance and reasonableness can be difficult or impossible.