Once you have gotten more comfortable with having compassion for yourself, having compassion for others and accepting compassion from others, your self-care can evolve to the level where you create your own source of compassion. This is the ultimate in self-care, because these positive feelings come from within, rather than being dependent on what anyone […]
Accepting Compassion is Not Always Easy
For people who are recovering from an eating disorder, compassionate support from others can be unsettling. You may not know how to receive that support, and you may not feel like you deserve it. Have you ever heard the expression that “we teach people how to treat us”? What happens in this case is that […]
Three Ways to Have More Compassion for Yourself
The world can be a harsh and confusing place for people who are dealing with an eating disorder. What might be a simple task for other people, such as a trip to the grocery store, can be daunting when you are surrounded by mixed messages. Standing at the checkout counter, a quick glance at the […]
Weaving in Other People’s Words
If you’re someone who tends towards negative, self-harmful thinking, you can practice using other people’s words until they become more natural to you. Here are a few ways you can do this
What Your Language is Really Saying
Language can be a barometer – if you learn how to read it.
Choosing the Words to Share
Find a way to speak your truth to others in a kind way that feels honorable to you and aligned with your values.
IAEDP™ Symposium 2012: A Perspective
(IAEDP is the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals) As a licensed clinician, supervisor of interns, and adjunct professor of psychology working in and focusing on the field of Eating Disorders and Food Addiction, I have to say, I love my job. I love helping people work on recovery from conditions and often debilitating eating […]
Why a Team Approach?
By Jaki Hitzelberger, MA, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern Surrounding yourself with a team of people who are knowledgeable, who support you, who understand and care, and who work towards helping you help yourself to a better, healthier life – that is an important part of our approach at White Picket Fence Counseling Center. One of the […]
Have you been feeling stressed lately? Stress. It’s everywhere. Like a bad penny, it keeps turning up, affecting your mood, your personality, your effectiveness, and often causing anxiety or irritability on the job, at school, or at home. It’s not a pleasant feeling when you want to enjoy life, but can’t. Wouldn’t it be nice […]
What Does it Mean to Surrender?
Twelve step programs have many recovery tools that can be beneficial to those who are struggling with food addiction, emotional eating, anorexia, compulsive eating or bulimia. One of these valuable concepts is surrender.
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