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 | Feb 17, 2024 | Children & Adolescence, Diabetes, Family, Health & Fitness, Stress
Fighting off Type 1 Diabetes, day in and day out, is the job of a super hero! Short of wearing the cape, (and some do as above…lol), people who have type 1 diabetes are doing what any good super hero would do. Those with insulin-dependent diabetes expend...
by Jeff Packer | Jan 24, 2024 | Diabetes, Health & Fitness
Many people think and feel that the diagnosis of diabetes is overwhelming, a catastophe, something that is almost insurmountable. These feelings and the thoughts that flood our minds during and shortly after a diagnosis of a chronic health issue are common and quite...
by Jeff Packer | Jan 11, 2024 | Depression, Diabetes, Discipline, Growth & Development, Health & Fitness, Love & Relationships, Mental Health, Self-Care
Some people suggest yoga for a variety of reasons such as weight loss, increased flexibility, greater strength, and mind-body connection. But did you know that yoga can help our brain function better? This article that I came across explains how just 20 minutes of...
by Jeff Packer | Dec 21, 2020 | Addictions, Affairs and Adultery, Anger Management, Anxiety, Blended Family, Change, Children & Adolescence, Conflict, Crisis, Culture & Ethnicity, Death and Loss, Depression, Diabetes, Discipline, Domestic Violence, Eating Disorder, Family
In the face of adversity, what will you choose? *I was 14 years-old the first time I found myself laying in a hospital bed. What I didn’t know then, was that I would spend the next three years of my life fighting for my health. I missed more school days than I...
by Jeff Packer | Jan 26, 2016 | Addictions, Anxiety, Diabetes, Eating Disorder, Mental Health, Stress, Teens
I Throw Up Almost Every Time I Eat – What Can I Do? This post is primarily a compilation of negative thoughts about eating, body image, binging and purging shared by many who are/were struggling with disordered eating behaviours. The way ‘It’ see’s eating...
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