This year’s National Eating Disorders Awareness Week theme is Everybody Has a Seat at the Table. Does your relationship with food take precedence over other relationships? Do you hide if you eat, how you eat, or what you eat? Are you dismissing or excusing physical changes and discomfort that may be related to if, how, and what you eat? We all should take eating disorders very seriously as … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2021
Black History Month
The 2021 theme for Black History Month is “The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity (https://asalh.org/black-history-themes/). Within our profession, we often discuss the concept of bias. A quick way to understand bias is that our brains create “shortcuts” based on whatever limited information or misinformation is available to fit a particular situation. These “shortcuts” allow … [Read more...]