GROW: Tell us a little about yourself: My appetite for photography started by randomly taking a class in college while taking independent studies in computer animation. Soon after, I went into Iraq during the war in 2003 to help with aid efforts and photograph the conditions and people I met … Read More
Navigating Holiday & Social Eating
Holidays do not discriminate – we are usually faced with gatherings of family and friends that revolve around food in order to celebrate together. With Memorial Day around the corner, you may be experiencing the same anxieties and struggles with social eating. I want to offer you a few tips … Read More
Do you sleep well?
What causes a restless night’s sleep? Sometimes individuals become overwhelmed with life’s circumstances and this can lend itself to agitated sleeping patterns. Also, being fatigued can lead to poor rest. Things that lay in the unconscious become very much active in one’s sleep. We are all busy during the day, but … Read More
Controversy in Eating Disorders: Can One FULLY recover?
As a counselor who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, I found this article a little disheartening. When I read the initial sentence, it took everything inside me not to yell at my computer screen “yes you can!” This article mentions the struggle of an emergency room physician’s eating … Read More
Getting a Better Body Image – Atlanta Sports Nutrition
Gaining a better body image seems to be a world-wide desire. With constant exposure to negative media messages and celebrity diets, it’s easy for us to see ourselves in a harmful light, resulting in lower self-esteem and depressed body image. Glamour magazine reported that 97% or women will have an … Read More
“You’d be pretty if…”
I found this blog interesting: a somewhat personal account mixed with raising awareness of a new term – body-snarking. Accoring to the author, body-snarking is the act of appraising someone elses body, then commenting negatively about it via a different outlet, such as the internet or social networking sites. I … Read More
Lose Your Mind to Find Your Body
The mind is a powerful and confusing structure. Have you ever heard the phrase, “it’s all in your head”? I think a lot of us can take that phrase figuratively instead of actually thinking literally about it. Let’s try: imagine a time when you were over analyzing, over-thinking, stressing or … Read More
GROW Interviews: Yoga Instructor Colette
G: Tell us about yourself, your job, and how you became a Yoga instructor: C: I’m a small-town girl from Newnan, GA who went to college for Dance Education & Mass Communications. After a short bout in Pittsburgh for a degree in Legal Studies, I moved back to Atlanta to … Read More
Joy in the mundane
I’ve found myself talking to my clients lately about finding joy in the mundane. Think about all the things that we do on a daily basis that are mundane – laundry, email, commuting, homework, brushing your teeth. It is easy to become frustrated, numb, or disconnected in the mundane. However, … Read More
Don’t miss your life…
Americans as a whole are challenged by being fully “present.” We tend to value quantity over quality. We find ourself looking for more before we have fully embraced what we have. We often settle for skimming the surface of something…say Twitter, Facebook, or emails…instead of seeking to fully understanding. Rather … Read More
