Tag: anorexia nervosa

People who get into addictions and disorders often have events in the past that triggered them to get into this place. These are the traumas they encountered and Judy Crane points out its relationship with addictions. Judy is a certified therapist and hypnotist who has two decades of experience working in treatment centers. She imparts her knowledge by talking about healing trauma and addictions. Discussing what trauma is, Judy talks about generational traumas and how it relates to certain stages in our liv

Oftentimes, we find ourselves hating the things we do, yet we go on because it keeps us fed. The longer we stay, the more emptiness we feel. Amir Zoghi shares his own journey of shifting his goals to heart-centered goals through intuition. Now he is an international leader and speaker in the area of self-awareness and human potential. Amir talks about the emptiness we feel despite the things we accomplished in life. Teaching how to overcome that, he talks about intuition and steering away from the voice in

Taking a different perspective on addiction, Dr. Gabor Maté believes that addiction has a lot to do with how people experience life in their early years. He attributes it to the adversities one goes through during childhood. Dr. Maté is a physician and bestselling author whose interests include mind-body unity, health illness, and the treatment of addictions. With this background, he talks about addiction in light of the mind-body unity, how it connects with the experiences we go through in our environmen

In order to become what the society dictates us to become, we tend to deprive ourselves with a lot of things. In terms of our body, we starve ourselves in order to look the ideal way. We don’t eat from a place of love. Instead, we eat from a place of fear. Isabelle Tierney teaches soulful eating, which is when you choose to eat to nourish your body from a love-based place. She is a life coach and licensed marriage and family therapist with an M.A. from Tufts University in Child Development. She is the fou

It is said that there are three things in life that are visceral; one is politics, second is religion, and third is nutrition. Diving deep into and covering the last one is Dr. Barry Sears. He is a bestselling author of multiple books including his most famous The Zone Diet, and the founder of TheZoneDiet.com. He is one of the leading authorities on the dietary control arm of hormonal and inflammatory responses to treat chronic disease. Dr, Sears imparts his expert knowledge by talking about diet, and gives

September is prostate cancer awareness month. One in every six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime. This affects not only the patients themselves but their families as well. That is why it is important to get acquainted with everything about it as best as you can. Dr. Aaron Katz is the director of the Center for Holistic Urology and an associate professor of Clinical Urology at Columbia University. He talks about his book, The Definitive Guide to Prostate Cancer: Everything You Need t

In this fast-paced day and age, it has become easy to forget living your truth. What we see is the reality we believed to be as the truth in our lives. We stop poking around ourselves thinking that all we have and all we are is right in front of us. Intuitive Warrior Amir Zoghi says that there is a difference between the truth and the reality. Amir is an international leader and speaker in the area of intuition, self-awareness, and human potential. He says living your truth takes a deeper dive within yourse

Obesity is a big focus in America. Yet it is something that the country does not know how best to deal with, so we have a number of diets present for both adult obesity and childhood obesity. Contrary to what people believe, Dr. Edward Abramson, licensed clinical psychologist, says that children who are overweight or obese should not be put on a diet. As an expert on eating and weight problems and an internationally recognized authority on emotional eating, weight control, and eating disorders, he gives gre

Often overlooked in aiming for a healthy lifestyle is the mind/brain aspect. People tend to be more engrossed in the physical activities and transformation. Dr. Ralph Carson believes otherwise and puts forth the importance of mind-body therapy. He is a clinical nutritionist and exercise physiologist with nearly 40 years of experience in the treatment of addictions, obesity, and eating disorders. He integrates bio physiological intervention and proven psychotherapeutic treatment. Dr. Carson talks about the e

Everyone has their own success stories with overcoming obesity, but not everyone goes through the same process and ends up with the same results. Bree Boyce, crowned Miss South Carolina in 2011, talks about her own journey. Bree shares how she went from being an overweight teenager to being in the Miss America Pageant. At 17 years old, with her highest weight at 234 lbs, being told that her knees and joints couldn’t handle the excessive weight anymore, she realized she had to make a crucial shift in her m