Metabolic Mental Health

The Missing Link in Recovery From Emotional Eating and Weight Loss? Relationship Support

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When it comes to emotional eating or long-term weight loss, most people are told to focus on willpower, discipline, or individual therapy. But there’s a crucial piece that often gets overlooked—relationship dynamics. If you’ve ever tried to change your eating patterns or lose weight while navigating tension with a partner or family member, you already know: it’s […]

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Weight Loss Practices

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People struggle with weight loss and weight maintenance for varied reasons. At a physiological level, in a sense “all roads lead to Rome” in that the core processes promoting weight gain on the cellular level are likely driven by core mechanisms involving mitochondria. Whether it’s a microbiome disruption, insulin resistance, obesogens, inflammation, stress, poor sleep,

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Losing Weight with Your Partner

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Couples therapy can be the ideal place to address weight management issues. Whether both partners need to lose weight to improve health and wellbeing or one partner struggles with weight loss, working together provides space to address inner and outer obstacles that prevent reaching and maintaining a healthy weight together. Working together to overcome struggle

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Struggling With Emotional Eating or Binge Eating & Want to Lose Weight?

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Consider shifting your focus from weight loss to health. There are many different types of healthy eating patterns developed by doctors to support a variety of health goals including brain health, gut health, longevity, blood sugar regulation/diabetes, strength, etc. Try researching and reading up on a few different approaches, and find what resonates with you.

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What is drama therapy?

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People often ask me what drama therapy is. I think the answer to that is a bit complex. There isn’t one way to practice drama therapy.  NADTA, the North American Drama Therapy Association, answers the question here It’s a pretty good definition. I would add, or perhaps clarify, a few things, at least to further

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Emotional Eating & Inner Parts of Self

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Many people struggle with emotional eating. What do I mean by ’emotional eating’? A sense of feeling out of control around food and eating in response to emotions (usually difficult ones like anger, sadness, anxiety, stress, boredom) or physical sensations (such as feeling tired, cravings, urges). It’s almost as if there are (at least) 2

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