Finding Hope for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
When people are burdened by fear, worry and anxiety, they struggle to live productive, happy lives. These same feelings propel them headlong into excessities.
Does Worry Stem from Your Childhood?
I believe a negative pattern of worry is established in childhood, based upon life circumstances, experiences, and perceptions. So, in order to find a way out, you need to be able to backtrack along your way in, to where worry started in the first place.
Is Food an Issue for You?
To help you understand if food has moved out of its God-given realm and into an inappropriate place in your life, answer the following questions, and be sure to explain why you answer the way you do.
Finding and Accepting Help – (Part 2)
Now that you may have recognized help is needed in your life, how do you know where to go to get the right help? There needs to be an internal connection (trust) for this to work. Frankly, it can be quite a circuitous path to find the help you need.
Recognizing When You Need Help – (Part 1)
Help is not always something you’re willing to accept. If you’re at the end of your rope, you have to drop that rope and grasp onto another one you’re not holding. If you’re up a creek without a paddle, once given a paddle, you actually have to start paddling, often against the current. If you’re in over your head, you have to decide to come up for air. Help is needed, help is offered, but help also has to be accepted. Help is a three-step process.
How To Help Those With An Eating Disorder This Holiday Season
Even though the holidays can be a difficult time for people with eating disorders, you play a vital role in their eating disorder recovery. Providing unconditional love and support for someone battling an eating disorder can transform the process into an empowering experience.
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is defined as “painful or apprehensive uneasiness of the mind usually over an impending or anticipated ill; fearful concern or interest;…an abnormal or overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physiological signs (as sweating,...
Eating Alone: The Greatest Danger Zone
What is your greatest danger zone when it comes to mealtime? Is it eating alone? It can be all too easy to plunk down in front of the TV with a sandwich and a bag of potato chips. A half hour later, the sandwich, the chips, and your self-esteem have all been consumed....
Our Need for Control
There is a wide difference between control and self-control. Many of us would admit to a desire for control in our lives and in fact have developed patterns and behaviors to attempt to achieve it. We’re not as diligent, however, when it comes to incubating an...
How Your Inner Child Influences Your Food Choices
You may be over forty, but most of us have one stubborn little kid rattling around inside. This “kid” represents some unfilled childhood need. And until we either fill or let go of that need, there he or she stays—never aging, always demanding. Kids like to eat junk...