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Eating Disorders Protect You from Thinking Too Much

Eating Disorders Protect You from Thinking Too Much

I have this brilliant client. Let’s call her Megan. Megan is brilliant. She comes in and waxes poetic about politics, philosophy, relationships, ethics, medicine… Really anything. She has a lot on her mind and needs to talk through it. I love to listen to her and I love to hear her thoughts and her ideas on […]

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Self Esteem in 10 Easy Steps

How to Raise Your Self Esteem in 10 Easy Steps

Last week, one of my clients said to me, “Leora, can you just teach me how to gain self-esteem? If I just had some self esteem my life would be so different…”  I knew what she meant. She tries to use her eating disorder to give her self confidence. She believes that if she were thin enough that

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Dealing With Hurt Feelings

5 Simple Rules for Dealing With Hurt Feelings

Last night, I was talking to Sarah, a client of mine who was filled with anger, rage and hurt because she felt that a friend had totally betrayed her. Sarah had told her best friend Angela about a job that she was going to apply to and then, without telling Sarah, Angela went ahead,  sent her resume

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pregnant but I can’t stop binge eating

Q&A Friday- I want to get pregnant but I can’t stop binge eating

  Just a note, I’m working through my backlog of questions. If you’ve emailed me a question and haven’t heard back, please don’t think I’m ignoring you… I’ll get to it!  Hi, I have been binge eating for a good 10 years and my weight has fluctuated up and down about 10kgs. I know that

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Halloween This Year

How about Sexy Einstein for Halloween This Year?

Halloween is challenging for people with eating issues for the obvious reasons- all the candy and partying everywhere. But there is also the fact that for many women, Halloween is a time to put on their sexiest outfits and throw on some horns and be a “sexy devil,” or a “sexy cat,” or a “sexy

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Get a Healthy Body

10 Ways to Get a Healthy Body Now

1. Eat mostly minimally processed and whole foods. This means choosing to actually eat a piece of chicken and broccoli that you get from the store rather than picking up a chicken and broccoli Lean Cuisine and having it pass for dinner. You want your food to have as few ingredients as possible. A steak

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A recovery story

A recovery story

I’ve been seeing *Emily in therapy for four years. She has written her recovery story and agreed to have it posted. I actually remember the first time I binged and purged. I was in eighth grade and we were at Thanksgiving dinner at my grandparents’ house. My grandma used to make these huge elaborate meals,

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