Importance of Peer to Peer Interaction

  Humans are social beings, we need to be around others to thrive. Each person requires some type of interaction to feel connected,  both introverts and extroverts alike. During this shelter in place order. It is important now more than ever that we all work...

Self-Critic

  Our brain generates thousands of thoughts each day, including the internal dialogue that runs in our heads.  It turns out the tone of our internal dialogue has a significant impact on our mood and well-being. For example, how many times after we make a...

How Your Eating Disorder May Actually Be Trying to Help

  It’s natural to feel like you are at war with your eating disorder. The constant thoughts about food, the impulses to binge, purge, or restrict, the internal agony of resisting the urge to over-exercise – these are all mental battles so intense they...

Emotion Regulation for “Spirited Adults”

  The classic book “Raising Your Spirited Child” was written twenty-seven years ago by Mary Sheedy Kurchinka, to provide hope and guidance to parents of children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive and energetic than the...

How Your Eating Disorder May Actually Be Trying to Help

  It’s natural to feel like you are at war with your eating disorder. The constant thoughts about food, the impulses to binge, purge, or restrict, the internal agony of resisting the urge to over-exercise – these are all mental battles so intense they...