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Entries Tagged as 'eating disorders, body image & similar topics'
taking responsibility: constance barnes and the braidwood enquiry
June 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: alcohol · eating disorders, body image & similar topics · emotional health · news and events
self esteem: the thread in the quilt of recovery
March 27th, 2009 · 8 Comments
here is another interview with someone recovering from an eating disorder. this person used to eat too much, and has been and still is dealing with it by going to overeaters anonymous.
isabella: “you’ve come a long way, baby” - how long HAVE you come? what’s changed?
OA person: how long have i come? i […]
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amputee beauty on a wordless wednesday
March 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments
no. 4 in my series on unconventionally beautiful women:
image by cambodia trust
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beating ANA - one relationship at a time
March 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments
“relationships replace eating disorders. period. the end.”
this is the central message of beating ANA – how to outsmart year eating disorder and take your life back by shannon cutts. it’s a book i’d recommend to anyone who wants to work their way out of an eating disorder.
the more loving, supportive, therapeutic relationships that exist […]
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the helping hand
March 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments
i am way, way, way, waaaaay overdue in passing along sojourner’s helping hand emblem to others. first of all, sojourner, you honour me with this. one of the reasons why i am so passionate about blogging is that i believe we are truly building a community of the future here. a community […]
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march 2009 buddhist carnival - in reverse
March 15th, 2009 · 11 Comments
roses are blooming on the rosebush.
there is nothing strange.
the flower blooms silently and falls quietly without sound,
never again to return to its branch.
her total existence is expressed in that one moment.
one place on the branch.
that is the voice of the flower,
the truth of the single flower on the branch.
therein lies the joy of life, infinitely […]
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eating disorders: learning to let go
March 13th, 2009 · 9 Comments
this is the second interview for this blog’s very own eating disorder’s week month spring. the first one was a three-part series on eating disorders and relationships. here is an interview with a vancouver woman who has struggled with recurring eating disorders, including anorexia, orthorexia and bulimia, and is currently maintaining a healthy […]
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rubenesque on a wordless wednesday
March 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments
still looking at images of people who, according to media, are not “supposed” to be beautiful …
this beautiful photograph was created by camil tulcan
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recovery
March 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments
here is the last instalment of my conversation with joanna poppink. this is part of a series of interviews about different topics in eating disorders.
originally, i was going to tack the answer to my last question on to the second part of the interview. however, i realized that the answer to this question […]
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eating disorders: mothers and daughters
March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
this is a continuation of my conversation with joanna poppink about adults recovering from eating disorders, with an emphasis on how that impacts relationships. joannna poppink is a psychotherapist with a private practice in los angeles specializing in eating disorder recovery (you can see her blog at stop eating disorders.) yesterday i said i […]
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eating disorders and relationships
March 6th, 2009 · 11 Comments
remember last week i asked people to be interviewed about eating disorders? well, some people volunteered. today i am happy to introduce you to joanna poppink, MFT, a long time private practice psychotherapist in los angeles specializing in eating disorder recovery. her blog is at stop eating disorders.
joanna will talk about how eating […]
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happy beauty on a wordless wednesday
March 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
this image is quite a propos, seeing that the main topic of this week is eating disorders and body image. don’t you think?
image by thinkross
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eating disorders week
February 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments
i have an amazing talent for missing national eating disorders week in canada, which was february 1-7. and i was even reminded by a number of people! fortunately, clinically clueless, who has been posting about national eating disorders week in the US, has also sent me a reminder - so i’m getting in here under […]
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february buddhist carnival - on mental health (part 2)
February 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments
this is part 2 of this month’s buddhist carnival. part 1 is here.
the wild mind and the wise body
i like this article by the wild moods that takes the actual here-and-now feelings and sensations of mental illness and uses them to get in touch with mental health
… take a second to think about how […]
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best of carnival of eating disorders
January 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments
welcome to the 24th edition of the carnival of eating disorders! blog carnival has been really problematic for the last few months. so instead of struggling with the blog carnival site, i just went back and looked at some posts from the past that i really enjoyed. here they are:
a poem
for the […]
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