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Sixty Year Old Girl on a Treadmill: Stress, Food and Body Issues at Any Age
There’s been a lot of press in the past few years about older women (meaning me and up) struggling with body image problems and eating disorders. Headlines include: An Older Generation Falls Prey to...
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Bulimia Time
A few years ago I met a woman who lived at night. She was a forty-something suburban mother, like myself, with a kind husband, a dog, and four beautiful children, aged thirteen to nineteen.* As her...
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Why am I sad? Anxiety in Disguise
I’d been encouraging my normally chipper eleven year old daughter to consider getting a new dresser, a bigger one where we wouldn’t have to annex pajamas to a shelf in her closet. I’d shown her some...
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The Would-be Master of Compromise
Sometimes I wish I were Obama’s therapist. Not that I think he suffers from any kind of mental illness, on the contrary, he may be the sanest man in Washington. It’s just that I think anyone with a...
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What are you Waiting For? Limbo vs. the Meantime.
“I’m waiting to hear.” “I’m waiting to find out.” “We were hoping to close before the end of the month but the buyers are stalling.” “The doctor thinks it’s benign but we won’t have the results for...
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The Story of Your Identity
Mom, Writer, Therapist, Wife, Self … My blog has shifted a little in the nine months since it began. I’m writing more and more about parenting, less lately about body image. My Mom-identity—as...
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Announcing My New Practice Website
Two and a half years ago, I took a leave from my psychotherapy practice to write and be home with my children in the after school hours. Now, as mentioned in this blog, I have begun to see clients...
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Lady Gaga: Eating Disorder Aftermath in the Spotlight
When I first heard about Lady Gaga, it was from my daughter, who kept singing Bad Romance and Alejandro and Edge of Glory, making me play the radio stations that played these songs until I have to say...
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Guest Blog: Get Your Priorities Straight!
Today I’m thrilled to host my very first Guest Blogger: Jodi Lobozzo Aman, L.C.S.W. – R., psychotherapist and healer with over twenty years of experience working with children, families and...
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Back: a Book Revised, a Reading Upcoming
It has been so long since I’ve posted here, so long since I’ve read or commented on the blogs I follow. In my last post, I apologized in advance for what I knew would be a break, and my kind,...
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Blog Tour (Book Review): Sick, by Laura Susanne Yochelson
Today, I am pleased to be reviewing Sick, by Laura Susanne Yochelson. This is Laura: And this is her book: In my last post, I talked about emotional scar tissue, how the wounds we’ve suffered in life...
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Sixty Year Old Girl on a Treadmill: Stress, Food and Body Issues at Any Age
There’s been a lot of press in the past few years about older women (meaning me and up) struggling with body image problems and eating disorders. Headlines include: An Older Generation Falls Prey to...
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Internalized Homophobia Wreaked Doom at Pulse
As a psychotherapist, part of my job is being open to the inner worlds of people who may be different from me, culturally, ideologically, religiously, racially, in orientation and in gender identity....
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Tomorrow on Longreads.com
Guess what, guys? I have another story going live in Longreads tomorrow. I am so proud and honored to have my second work published by this amazing online journal. That said, to have this particular...
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