Parenting and Peer Pressure – Helping Prevent an Eating Disorder

Let’s face it.  We all want to fit in. We tell ourselves that we are individuals but we imitate what we see around us.   For the most part, we dress alike, talk alike, work alike, and live many aspects of our lives just like our neighbors. So is it any wonder our kids...

Parenting and Peer Pressure – Helping Prevent an Eating Disorder

Let’s face it.  We all want to fit in. We tell ourselves that we are individuals but we imitate what we see around us.   For the most part, we dress alike, talk alike, work alike, and live many aspects of our lives just like our neighbors. So is it any wonder our kids...

Struggling with an eating disorder? It’s OK to Ask for Help!!

This week’s blog is dedicated to individuals who are currently being held in captivity by their eating disorder but find it too frightening to ask for help. Loved ones may be encouraging you to seek treatment but you are blinded by the allure of what your eating...

Fad Diets – Don’t let them pave the way to an eating disorder!

Have you ever walked down the magazine aisle and took inventory of all the diet-related topics that appear on the cover of countless health, fitness, and beauty magazines? It never ceases to amaze me how many new diet plans and products are being introduced to the...