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How To Support A Loved One With An Eating Disorder During The Holidays
The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness. However, for those with eating disorders, this period can be particularly challenging. According to NEDA, in the United States, 28.8 million Americans will suffer from an eating disorder at some point...
Navigating Back-to-School Anxiety with Confidence
The start of a new school year can be an exciting yet scary time. Regardless of what age your child is, starting school for the first time or starting a new grade can bring about a lot of anxiety and behavior changes. If your child is feeling apprehensive about...
The Wedding Vow You Didn’t Know You Took and How To Keep It
Most wedding vows ask the question “Do you promise to forsake all others as long as you both shall live?” However, the neglected second part of this question states “….or Will you keep making negative comparisons between me and real or imagined alternatives?” Who do...
The Impact Of Social Media Effects On Body Image
In the digital age, social media has become an integral part of the lives of teenagers and young adults, offering a platform for self-expression, connection, and exploration. However, alongside its benefits, like the increase in access to friends and information, the...
Co-parenting With a Difficult Ex Spouse
Many Thanks to Rachel Menoizain, at Refuel Counseling in Cumming, GA for contributing to this post. If you would like to contact Rachel, you can reach her at RACHEL@REFUELCOUNSELING.COM. Co-Parenting can be hard and co-parenting with a toxic ex-spouse can feel...
Nurturing Healthy Conversations: A Guide for Parents on Discussing Eating Disorders with Their Children
Seeing your child struggle with disordered eating can be incredibly painful and helpless. Sometimes, parents see the disordered eating patterns clearly and other times, you wonder if your child is secretly struggling. Conversations around eating disorders with your...
Patterns of Conflict
Often when people come into couples’ therapy, it is because there is a conflict. At some point many people find themselves feeling alone and misunderstood in their relationship. When this happens, it’s easy to think there is something wrong with your partner or worse...
Benefits of Therapy as a Young Adult
Many people can benefit from therapy. Therapy is a great way for anyone to address, process, and work through various challenges and issues that life throws at us. As a young adult, there are specific struggles and experiences that therapy can help address and work...
What is Bulimia Nervosa and How It Can Affect You
Eating disorders can present in various ways for different people. As no two people are alike, the same is similar to how disordered eating can show up for each individual. There are larger categories of eating disorders that help us identify patterns of behavior,...
How to Heal From Betrayal Trauma
If you are reading this, you are a person of tremendous strength who is likely experiencing one of the most painful seasons of their life. Experiencing sexual betrayal shatters your whole life, causing you to want to give up. It's natural, and you are justified in...
Why Boundaries Are Not Enough
Why Boundaries Are Not Enough How do NASA, the lunar orbit, and airplanes relate to marriage counseling? Frank Borman was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the moon. Later he became the CEO of Eastern Airlines, and his attitude toward aviation...
Your Thoughts Shape The Way You Look At Yourself
Your mind is a powerful thing. It is what allows us to walk, talk, think, form opinions, and make observations. It helps us determine right from wrong; feel happy or sad. Our mind is at the center of how we perceive the world and how we perceive ourselves. It can be...
Warning Signs Of An Eating Disorder
Everyone has a relationship with food. Eating food is what fuels us and comforts us. Food is a necessity to live and thrive, but you may find your relationship with food shifting into one that brings you stress and discomfort. What Is Disordered Eating? We live in a...
Marriage Myth Busting
Does having children really decrease marital happiness? Do marriages really get better when children leave the home? Click here for a two minute video from the folks at the Doherty Relationship Institute regarding some interesting research findings.
How to Support Someone with Anorexia
How can you support someone you love with Anorexia? Watching a loved one struggle with Anorexia Nervosa can create feelings of immense helplessness, sadness, and grief. At times, it can feel as if the person you care for is lost in their disorder. That their identity...