Martha Stewart & the Art of Resilience
If I could pass one skill along to all of my clients, it would be resilience. Resilience is the most important trait a human being can have to sustain good mental health and successfully face life. One way to further promote your own resilience is to identify your values and commit to taking actions based on the things that matter to you, a key principle in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). I also like to have an actual person to emulate when I’m trying to develop a new skill, so today I propose Martha Stewart as our resilience role model.
5 Best Practice Tips for Treating Clients with Eating Disorders
I recently put on a training where I taught therapists who don’t specialize in eating disorders how to work with clients struggling with eating disorders and body image issues. At the end of the training, I summarized some key takeaways with a list of “Do’s and Don’ts”. Many clinicians shared that this was super helpful for them! I wanted to compile the list here for other therapists who may be interested in treating eating disorders. Presenting! My top 5 best practice tips for treating clients with eating disorders!
What causes eating disorders?
While we think of eating disorders as a modern phenomena– and at the explosive rates we see them today they certainly are– they are also brain based diseases that existed long before anyone considered being thin aspirational. Remember, food scarcity was the problem for most of human existence, so a beautiful person was historically a visibly well fed person.