I often say that relationship is 80% of food recovery healing. Chronic dieting happens in the context of relationship – we’re told we need to eat a certain way, look a certain way, we’re not born thinking those things. So, healing also needs to be...
I have a couple questions for you. How do you know if your client feels relative safety to trust you? When a client says they feel better thinner and they cognitively get that thinner does not make an enormous difference in day-to-day life events/relationship but...
Boundaries and saying ‘no’ is hard for everyone – even therapists and dietitians doing the work. In this video, I go over an example of how you can walk your ‘low sense of me’ clients through establishing boundaries and what it feels like...
Have you ever been explicit with your client and talked about the patterns that are keeping them stuck when it comes to food? Sometimes that’s the only way forward for those who are so disassociated and entangled with their food. This week over on my...
What’s less fun than a sunburn? …..Our clients learning boundaries with their families. That’s right. Many are starting to travel again – go places, vacations, meet up with family, etc. And when we enter into other people’s spaces, we...
As the world begins to re-open, our clients may be experiencing anxiety or feeling fearful about being in situations again where others are going to be in the ‘diet zone’. Our first response may be to jump straight into solution mode when our...
