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Thanksgiving Goodness Without The Guilt

Thanks to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) for asking me to blog for them! You can check out my first post here, just in time for this week’s holiday. Happy Thanksgiving.

Thanks Again

Have you been gravitating toward higher calorie foods since 2008? In a study presented back in August at the yearly meeting of the American Psychological Association, University of Miami marketing doctoral student Anthony Salerno suggests that your choices may be due to the economy. Salerno’s research found that study participants primed to focus on deprivation chose …

Talking About Your Recovery

Part of me thought people wouldn’t understand, part of me thought people would judge me or lose respect for me, and part of me was just too proud. And so I kept it to myself. And so that’s how I felt: all by myself. Talking About Your Recovery Lately I’ve been feeling pretty lonely, and …

Sweet Honey In The Rock

Don’t you just love it when you come across something so wonderful?

SURVIVING ANOREXIA—-MY BEST FRIEND STOLE MY EATING DISORDER.

I have had a lot of friends stab me in the back, talk behind my back, and say they had my back but proved they never did. I have had a lot of friends come and go, and I certainly miss some of them..others not so much. However, up until recently I have never […] …

Surfer Girl

On a beach walk one morning, two groups of children caught my eye. The first was a group of boys, with a fairly large age range, maybe 6-16. They were little surfers, hitting the morning Pacific waves with spirited tries. Next I came across a smaller group of tween girls participating in a makeshift photo …

Support The Joy Project As You Shop Online!

Help raise funds just by shopping online! Shopping online for Christmas? A few additional clicks can earn money for your favorite nonprofit- without costing you anything! Click the link below and enter your info. $5 will be donated to The Joy Project! Then, any time you shop online at one of 1600 iGive-affiliated stores, The …

Support For Family And Friends Of Those Struggling With Eating Disorders

Jane Hinchliffe via Etsy.com The Victorian knows that eating disorders are a “family disease.” Meaning there are systems within the family unit that trigger eating disorder behaviors. During treatment we offer our clients and their family members time to process past traumas and take a look at their family system together in a program called, …

Sugar Is Toxic: Heart Disease, Cancer & More

This is Part 1 in a 4-part series on Sugar and Other Sweeteners. (1) Sugar Is Toxic: Heart Disease, Cancer & More (2) Sugar: How Much Is Too Much? (3) Artificial Sweeteners Make You Fat (4) Sugar: Physical Addiction or Emotional Craving? New research shows that sugar is a direct cause of heart disease, diabetes, …

Sugar Is Toxic: Heart Disease, Cancer & More

This is Part 1 in a 4-part series on Sugar and Other Sweeteners. (1) Sugar Is Toxic: Heart Disease, Cancer & More (2) Sugar: How Much Is Too Much? (3) Artificial Sweeteners Make You Fat (4) Sugar: Physical Addiction or Emotional Craving? I always thought that sugar was just empty calories, that the worst it …

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