Normal Feelings to Have While Recovering from and Eating Disorder

  I often reflect to my clients the necessity of sitting with and confronting uncomfortable emotions in the process of eating disorder treatment, or otherwise risk a superficial and short-lived recovery. To make this experience a bit less daunting, it can be...

The Positive Effects of Avoiding Criticism

When you’re working with a teammate and they show you their work, and you tell them: That’s no good That’s not what that is supposed to look like Have you ever seen this done right? The likely affect will be either anger, shame, and they will pull...

What Your Child Needs from You

  This is particularly directed towards those with younger children, and hopefully those with older children as well. A few reminders to start off a new series about the love language of children, and how to live it out to show them the most unconditional love....

Vaping Risks and Rewards

    Vaping of e-cigarettes is on the rise, especially with the teenage population from 2-3% in 2011 to 19-23% in 2018 (MMWR, Vital Signs: Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students, United States, 2011-2018). Participates may say the benefits...

Parentification

  A theme that comes up frequently when working with teens, and with adults as well, is parentification. This is a big, fancy word for the roles of parent and child being reversed, not to a complete extent of literally living the other’s life, but by...