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Here you will find articles discussing the various ways culture and media can affect both the development of an eating disorder and eating disorder recovery.
Links to various articles in the news and other websites and blogs representing cultural voices will be posted here along with commentary.
Healing and Joy Experience at UCLA Sculpture Garden
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Westside Los Angeles Treasure and Co-Therapist
The Westside of Los Angeles, where I live and have my psychotherapy private practice, holds a treasure trove of resources that can be helpful in the eating disorder recovery of my clients. I consider many of these places to be "co-therapists" in our work.
Women I work with are often surprised, reluctant, wary and then eager and happily surprised to when they explore and discover what will nourish their bodies, hearts, minds and souls out in our nearby world.
UCLA
For example, UCLA is a gift that keeps on giving.Young anorexic woman is murdered in family tragedy
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Reflections on Tragic Death In Ireland
A young anorexic woman died in Ireland. Her mother was a psychiatrist. She drowned her daughter in the bath.
It's a tragic story of Gothic proportions going back who knows how many generations. The mother couldn't bear the daughter's anorexia. The daughter refused treatment. The mother had an eating disorder. The grandmother committed suicide.
Sex, Beauty and Eating Disorders: Let Love and Reality Win
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*pix Marilyn Monroe
Sex, Understanding, Confusion, False Messages and Eating Disorders
If you have an eating disorder, you most likely know that human sexuality is flagrantly advertised and photographed, exploited and both demonized and idealized in our culture. Yet your actual experience is rarely reflected back to you in ways that help you feel understood or understand yourself. Worse, the bomardment of sexual behavior and sexual etiquette definitions may overwhelm you before you can develop your own appreciation for what's important to you.
Here's an example of the pressure on you to fit into a predetermined and callous sexually desireable straightjacket.
Restaurant Menu Calorie Count Can be Unreliable
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If you are watching your calories and nutritional intake, be careful in restaurants. Be sure to use your common sense as you evaluate the information on the menu next to your favorite foods. Tufts University researchers are helping us keep track of what's right and what's not.
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- Brittany Murphy: some anorexia thoughts
- All You Can Eat Buffets: how to survive them
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- Does the media play a role in eating disorders?
- Manipulative Weight Loss Seminars Exposed
- Eating disorder recovery and using "to do" lists
- Michael Jackson: Anorexia?
- The Path to Life Beyond Eating Disorders
