by Jeff Packer | Mar 8, 2024 | Addictions, Affairs and Adultery, Change, Mental Health, Problem-Solving, Sexuality
Some may read the title of this blog appalled by the assumption that everyone is an addict. So let’s consider this statement from Christopher Kennedy Lawford, author of “What Addicts Know.” “As a culture we’ve become addicted not only to gambling, drugs,...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 25, 2024 | Change, Diabetes, Eating Disorder, Family, Mental Health, Parenting, Stress, Teens
Help For Eating Disorders Saves Lives – Durham Region In a “sweeping” analysis of 77 studies, involving more than 15,000 subjects, University of Wisconsin researchers post-doctoral student Shelley Grabe and psychology professor Janet Hyde found that...
by Jeff Packer | Mar 25, 2014 | Addictions, Anxiety, Children & Adolescence, Eating Disorder, Mental Health
Photo credit: Pwin from morguefile.com Narrative Approaches Help Conquer Disordered Eating The approaches found most effective to recover from eating disorders and “disordered eating” behaviours include (but are not limited to) cognitive-behavioural,...
by Jeff Packer | Mar 10, 2014 | Addictions, Change, Conflict, Crisis, Eating Disorder, Family, Love & Relationships, Mental Health, Parenting, Separation & Divorce, Stress
Photo credit: ardelfin from morguefile.com Many families will come to counselling as a sign of support to help a loved one through a difficult time (e.g. addiction, cooperative parenting, disordered eating, anxiety, depression, OCD, etc.). Sometimes families will...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 19, 2014 | Change, Eating Disorder, Family, Mental Health
What a Puzzle One of the most difficult puzzles to put together is how to best help a loved one suffering from an eating disorder. As their family, we want to support them, love them, and even help “cure” them. We watch them struggle and we too will...
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