For some, Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate the selfless woman who raised us, and for others, it can be a source of pain, longing, and grief. When a parent passes on from this life, we have a hole in our heart that can never be filled. While some are out celebrating with a bottomless brunch and a day full of sunshine and laughs, for others, this is the most challenging day of the month.
Almost everyone occasionally finds comfort in food and overeats on occasion. This is totally normal and typical for the fast paced, stressful world that we live in today. Emotional eating can be a way of sometimes coping with stress and is part of normal life. On the other hand, individuals struggling with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) may experience this at a more frequent and extreme level.
The general public is most often aware of the more common eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating Disorder. However, many people are not informed about the lesser known eating disorders such as Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Rumination Disorder, and Pica. I hope to provide more education around Pica below!
March is National Nutrition Month; a month dedicated to education around the importance of good nutrition and exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle. Every year, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) chooses a theme to focus on; this year’s theme is to “Celebrate A World of Flavor.” I love that this year’s theme is focused on inclusivity, and the fact that there is no one set model of “health” for all people.
This Valentine’s Day 2022, scores of newly out people in the LGBTQIA+ community will be celebrating Valentine’s Day and their first year of living in their bold and authentic truth. While many traditional holiday celebrations can feel hard to navigate as someone newly out in the community, Valentine’s Day can be especially so. Valentine’s Day has historical roots as a heteronormative holiday.
Whether you feel Valentine’s Day is a commercialized holiday invented by the capitalistic machine, or you are a true romantic with emoji-esque hearts-in-eyes, Valentine’s Day will cause an increase in pressurized anxiety for most who remember its approach. Here are five strategies to manage your Valentine’s Day blues, jitters, or fears of disappointment, whichever the case may be.
When you hear the word “addict,” what comes to mind? A person on the street begging for money? What about a person slumped over on the train that hasn’t moved in the last two stops? Those are the stereotypical images that come to mind when we think of addiction.
We at LIFT are surely not among the only folks who kept the holiday decorations up quite late this year. In fact, one of our clinicians set a probable record with her tree taken down on Martin Luther King Day!
Over the course of December, I had the pleasure of attending the Westport Country Playhouse production of A Merry Little Christmas Carol, adapted from Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol. It was a Script in Hand reading, written and directed by Mark Shanahan.
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