Weight Watchers or “Self Compassion”? This was originally published in the CommonHealth Blog of WBUR, Boston’s NPR radio station. This article is in response to the death in April of Jean Nidetch, the founder of Weight Watchers. This article was written by my friend and colleague, Jean Fain, author of The Self Compassion Diet . As […]
Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists: Practice Workbook, Volume 3 by Molly Kellogg, RD, LCSW
Excerpted from Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists: Practice Workbook, Volume 3 by Molly Kellogg,RD, LCSW, Kg Press, 2014 This month, I am spotlighting my colleague and friend, Molly Kellogg, who has written a wide variety of practice tips for nutrition professionals. We humans come in wondrous variety, and we approach the world with an infinite range […]
On Vulnerability and Creativity
I recently attended a program at my Temple Shalom of Newton, where I am a member. This program was for Slichot, which is the time before the high holidays, the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. During this time, we prepare to consider our actions during the past year, to take […]
My New Book Will Be Published Soon!
For most of my 40+ year career I have dreamed about publishing a book of my own. This dream is coming true! I have worked for the past 2 years assembling and editing an anthology titled Wellness, Not Weight: Health At Every Size and Motivational Interviewing. It will be published by Cognella Press in the […]
Finding Perfection in Food: A Metaphor for our Anxieties
I’ve been reading a very interesting new book, “White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf” by Aaron Bobrow-Strain. The author has written about how the concept of a white flour bread, vs the older style whole wheat or dark bread was and is linked to social and political movements over the past 130 […]
