Natalie Portman and the Black Swan: A Perfect Performance of Insanity
Recently I saw the movie Black Swan. Besides the buzz around it, because I’m a former professional dancer, in recovery for eating disorders, and a therapist, I thought it would be the perfect movie for...
View ArticleEating Disorder Transitional Living…Bridging the Gap
>In an article published on May 7th, the Kansas City Star announced the opening of Thalia House, a transitional living house for women recovering from eating disorders. Given that I grew up in KC,...
View ArticleOpening a Window of Opportunity
Countless number of times when active in the eating disorder, I’d have a thought to use an eating disorder symptom and, before I knew it, I’d be standing in a grocery store buying binge food or find...
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Institute for the Psychology of Eating – big thank you!
A big thank you to the Institute for the Psychology of Eating for voting my blog as one of their Top 50 Emotional Eating listings. I will be adding your wonderful badge to my site shortly! When you...
View ArticleEating Disorders Music Video–Ashley Jordan’s “Fading Away”
Hey! Check out Ashley Jordan’s wonderful “Fading Away” Music Video. She wrote this song because she has a couple of friends who have battled depression and eating disorders. She wants to to convey her...
View ArticleWorkout Wednesdays–Breaking Down the Barriers in ED Recovery!
While it is important to know why your eating disorder started, what can be even more important in eating disorder recovery is what are the factors that are maintaining the eating disorder? What...
View ArticleSetting Realistic Expectations
Setting realistic expectations during the recovery process–and accepting what that reality means for recovery–particularly early recovery–can be a challenging and humbling experience. Many of us in...
View Article“Urge Surfing”
An important concept the patients learn at Renfrew is Urge Surfing. That is, you ride the wave of the urge to use ED symptoms until it passes. For so many years, I couldn’t see that there was a...
View ArticlePatience and Perseverance is Key!
So often I hear patients in early recovery questioning whether it is really working because they don’t feel better already. They share their discouragement about how they are working really hard and...
View ArticlePie in the Sky
Recently there has been a similar theme in several of the clients I work with. I guess the easiest way to describe it is that many have great difficulty imagining what recovery and freedom from the...
View ArticleThe Real Truth About Eating Disorders…
This morning I read an article by Erin Joy Henry in the Huffington Post about eating disorders. I think it is a great article about the superiority and glamorization that can occur within ED...
View ArticleInstitute for the Psychology of Eating – big thank you!
A big thank you to the Institute for the Psychology of Eating for voting my blog as one of their Top 50 Emotional Eating listings. I will be adding your wonderful badge to my site shortly! When you...
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goodreads!
I finally got a chance to update my goodreads profile: http://www.goodreads.com/GretaGleissner Take a look when you have a moment! What a great, interactive website. It’s also a reminder of the many...
View ArticleWorkout Wednesdays – Breaking Down the Barriers in ED Recovery!
While it is important to know why your eating disorder started, what can be even more important in eating disorder recovery is what are the factors that are maintaining the eating disorder? What...
View ArticleEating Disorders… The “Real Issues”
In her most recent book, Your Dieting Daughter, Carolyn Costin provides great insight as to the issues that underly eating disorders. Below are the 14 “Real Issues” that contribute to and perpetuate...
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