The Pros and Cons of Professional Conferences
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I just returned from presenting at The Renfrew Foundation Conference. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Renfrew, it is the oldest residential program...
View Article“Bird by Bird”
Art by Ada Breedveld One of my favorite authors is Anne Lamott and one of the many Anne Lamott words of wisdom that I live by was in her book, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. I...
View ArticleCurtain Up! Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress
My favorite professor at UNH! Carol Lucha Burns, author of Georgia, A New York Story I was a theater major at the University of New Hampshire for my B. A., a creative arts education major for my M. A....
View ArticleEating Disorders Recovery Support: It’s Not sELFish to Ask for Help
Elf Promotion I am reluctant to use my blog for sELF-promotion. Sure, I always include links to where to buy my book, it is an author’s obligation these days to market their books in any way...
View ArticleA Bee in my Bonnet!
It’s like a bee hive out here in the world of body image and eating disorders right now! Not a happy hive where all the critters are humming along doing their apian choreography. More like one that...
View ArticleBUZZ OFF: Part Two of Tackling the Buzz Kill!
This is the second part of a three part series on one approach to treating the clinical diagnosis of Beeinurbonnettopathy (soon to be included in the DSMXXXV). If you didn’t read part one you may want...
View ArticleThe Bee’s Knees
This is the third and final part of my three part Bee Here Now Series about cultivating a positive body image via Walkie Talkie sessions. In part one, “A Bee in my Bonnet,” we talked about the buzzing...
View ArticleThinKing of Robin King
Vitriolic, acerbic, egregious. Onomatopoeias. These are words that sound like what they mean. And they basically mean mean. If you say the words in the context of their meaning, it’s difficult to NOT...
View ArticleWhy ISN’T This Night Different?
Seders and eating…a match made in…well, it all depends on your spiritual/religious perspective. Passover Seders will kick into gear this week and while the diversity of rituals is extensive, one common...
View ArticleDr. Deah ja Vu (6)
DEJA POO: THE FEELING YOU HAVE HEARD THIS CRAP BEFORE! If you are having that strange feeling that you have been here before, worry not…there is a very good likelihood that you have! Every January,...
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