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I Can Taste the Good Life:

A New Relationship with Food and with Myself

Food is one of the most exciting things on the planet. Yet sometimes our thoughts about food and our thoughts about ourselves change that joyful reality to something dark and shameful. Sometimes our bodies themselves lead us astray and fire off misleading signals about hunger, anxiety, self perceptions, and more. We find ourselves having an imbalanced relationship with food, eating too much or too little. Either way, we end up feeling sick, guilty, and hopeless. Unfortunately, approaches that label us, perhaps with an eating disorder, do not provide us with the means to restore comfort, health and joy.

The road to a healthy body is not paved with mirrors, weird parents, scales, certain size clothes, judgmental tweets, society’s chosen body size, or even any specific kind of food. The road to the right body, the right person, the right life is paved with moments of self-reflection, or coached reflection with a caring person. In some cases, our self-reflectors get a little dusty and we need the friendly car wash crew to help clean things up. That’s what therapy is like. It’s a friendly relationship to help you with your ability to see yourself, to see who you are and want to be, to have the relationship with food and the greater world that is exciting and not shame-producing. Sometimes therapy is also a place to find more friendly accountability for the actions we take, a place to form new behaviors.

Exploring a relationship, whether with food, with emotions, with ourselves, or with other people, is always more healing if we do it within a relationship. Therapy provides a safe, non-blaming, relationship in which to transform destructive eating patterns. In partnership, we explore what lies behind these intriguing imbalances. Our work together helps to change patterns and support an identity that is not dictated by fear. My somatic, psychodynamic, family and nutrition oriented approach ensures that you will have support to make important changes. The next bite of the apple could be a joyful one. The next step on the journey could be filled with bounce and vigor. The road to health itself is lined with food treats that you can enjoy without fear or blame. Your joyful, food-friendly self is waiting to emerge.
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Taste life to the fullest. - Persephone Puganini — Taste life to the fullest.
– Persephone Puganini

What you think of yourself is much more important than what people think of you. - Seneca — What you think of yourself is much more important than what people think of you.
– Seneca

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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self. - Simone de Beauvoir — To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.
– Simone de Beauvoir

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson — Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson

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There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore. - Laurie Halse Anderson — There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.
– Laurie Halse Anderson

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