Nurture Your Creativity

50 Ways to Challenge Your Mind and Express Your Creativity 1 Play a board-game: Clue, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Mind Trap, Chess 2 Cook a new meal 3 Creatively frost a cake or bake it in a special cake form (heart, bunny, race car, sorority letters) 4 Go hiking in a...

70 Ways to (Painlessly) Improve Nutrition

The key to lasting behavior change is making small changes, gradually. Try adding one or two of these things to your routine each week and see how you feel at the end of the year. 1. Use applesauce, pureed bananas or sweet juices, instead of oil, when baking (When my...

Eating Disorders Primer

Eating disorders are psychologically based disorders in which the fear of fat becomes overwhelming and begins to cause clinically significant distress in social or occupational functioning. Although these are the symptoms, it is merely the surface of a much larger...

Patient Handout Links

Patient Information Handouts and Links Staying Healthy Quitting Smoking Mental Health ADD/ADHD Addictions Anxiety Anxiety & Panic Generalized Anxiety Disorder Panic Disorder Social Phobia Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Binge Eating...

ANOREXIA

Anorexia is a mental health disorder. The main symptoms include  preoccupation with dieting and thinness that leads to excessive weight loss; nevertheless, it is vital to remember that these are merely the symptoms. Anorexia and other eating disorders are rarely...

ANGER: Where Does It Come From

Anger is a defense mechanism that protects us from threat or fear of rejection, isolation, loss of control, failure, the unknown and/or death. Think back to the last 2 times you were angry. What fears was your anger related to?   Create a table. In the first column,...