Category Archive: cognitive behavioral therapy

Dec 24

Q&A- How do I stick to my New Year’s resolutions?

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Question: Submitted in person during a session by a client of mine. Anonymous, San Francisco, CA Every year I make all these great New Years resolutions, and every year I fail at them. What am I doing wrong? Everyone else knows how to stick to their new years resolutions, why can’t I? I feel like …

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Oct 05

Postponing a Binge

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There are times when you will be about to binge or trying to convince yourself that you won’t binge if you just let yourself have this one thing that has historically been a trigger food. Stop. Before you do anything, ask yourself, “am I hungry?” If you are, let yourself eat a protein dense food. …

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Aug 02

The Zen of Recovery– Using Meditation to help Binge Eating Disorder

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Meditation can be a very effective way to help binge eating disorder.

Jul 29

Focusing on the Negative

So much of eating disorders is fueled by focusing on the negative. By negative, I mean what we don’t have. There is always this sense of “I would be better if i were thinner, if I had more money, if I had a boyfriend, if I had a baby, if I had new car, if …

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Jul 14

Choices and Reactions

It’s not what people do that upset us, it’s our reaction to it. It’s not our thoughts or our feelings that upset us, it’s our reaction to it. One of the things that we rarely remember in recovery is that we actually have a choice. Sometimes, when we have the urge to binge, it feels …

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Jul 06

Routines and Rituals

In working with addiction, one of the most basic things that one can do to help oneself is to change up their routine a bit. For instance, someone who knows that they have a glass of wine each day when they come home from work, will begin to fantasize about that glass of wine a …

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