Eating My Cake

I want to wish you all a happy (if belated) 2010! I hope this year is one where you learn to be gentle and kind with yourself and your body. May you find acceptance in the person you are, inside and out!
With the start of a new year often comes resolutions. The emphasis tends to [...]

In October of 2007, I confessed to my husband that I was really struggling with emotional baggage mainly related to my lifelong struggle with food. While I showed early signs of disordered eating, I didn’t truly develop an eating disorder until I spent several years under the watchful and often vindictive and malicious eye of [...]

Principle one of Intuitive Eating is to reject the diet mentality. This is the first principle for the very simple fact that without being prepared to fully and totally accept that dieting, and the mindset it puts one in, does not work, you cannot be an intuitive eater. You simply can’t. If you’re thinking about [...]

I am posting all ten. In weeks to come, I aim to address each one and how I have worked through the principle or still am struggling with it. I am doing this because with stress and depression comes not being as attentive… and so this is a refresher course for me, and hopefully helpful [...]

I have never been comfortable admitting when I am depressed. It is such an unusual sensation for me, and therefore one I fight tooth and nail every time.
However, right here and right now I will say it… I’m depressed.
It’s not as if I haven’t battled this ugly monster before. I experienced severe depression [...]

It is very common for those of us who have fibromyalgia to also struggle with irritable bowel syndrome. IBS is a frustrating and embarrassing condition. It can also be quite painful and debilitating.
I have actually struggled with IBS far longer than fibromyalgia, and my presentation is somewhat unique. Nausea tends to be my biggest [...]

I just want to wish everyone a very happy holiday…
I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions. I think they set us up for failure. I do, however, think it’s worth looking back on the year, and to take time to think about what you want to accomplish in the year to come.
For me, [...]

In June Serena told me about the great opportunity she had to work directly with a brand new in-patient eating disorder center in Denver. At the time, she said she’d planned to keep office space up here, for her local patients. Denver is a 50 minute drive for me, and one I’m not real keen [...]

Below is a transcript of a conversation I just had with Hope. I should tell you that Hope was arrested Sunday for stealing more Coricidin. I knew she was using… unbeknownst to her, one of her friends confided in me that she suspected it, and our mother knew because Hope was barely eating, a sure [...]

Dr. Didnotlisten,
I saw you for an initial evaluation to diagnose probable fibromyalgia. You told me you wanted to see me again in a month, and that you would call me with the lab results. I wanted you to be aware of why you won’t be receiving those results and why I will not follow up [...]