Binge Eating Therapy

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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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To Be a Better Person

How To Be a Better Person

I have this client who is really afraid that she’s not a good enough person. But here’s the thing, she’s a really good person. But she’s always afraid that she’s not good enough. She’s almost “too good,” she does everything for everyone else,  she covers other people’s shifts when she’s tired, she cooks dinner for

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calorie counting to binge eating

Friday Q&A– I went from calorie counting to binge eating

This question comes from Elizabeth in New York City. Q:  I went on a diet last summer. I lost 40 pounds from June to November by eating exactly 1200 calories each day and running on the treadmill for 45 minutes every morning. Starting around Thanksgiving, I lost it all. I started bingeing at the Thanksgiving

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