In a culture where thinness is too often equated with physical attractiveness, success, and happiness, nearly everyone has dealt with issues regarding the effect their weight and body shape can have on their self-image. However, eating disorders...
I think the hardest thing about seeing a therapist for me was actually starting the process, picking up the phone, making that first call and being brave enough to show up for my first appointment. I had all kinds of weird ideas in my head about...
Six months ago my mom passed away due to a cancer illness, and my life fell apart. My mom was my world. I don't have any brothers or sisters and the rest of my immediate relatives, live far away so mom was all I had growing up. When she died I didn...
All my life, I grew up in a small town, but I moved away to New Orleans to go to college, which was a big transition for me. When I got to ”the city” as I called it, I really had a hard time adjusting. Everything seemed so much bigger and...
If it wasn’t for therapy, I don’t know what I would have done! About 5 years ago, I began to feel tightness in my chest and I'd feel light-headed and would get feelings of totally losing control during certain times. The episodes began to happen...
I’ve been married now for almost fifteen years. I can now say that I’m “happily married,” but it wasn’t that long ago that things had gotten so strained between me and my husband that I was sure we were headed for divorce...
