It’s something I hear all the time as people come into my office or talk to me about losing weight. They say, “Well I just need to go back to what I was doing a couple of years ago, it worked before…” There are, of course variations on the theme. Maybe someone will say, “I […]
Weight Watchers or “Self-Compassion” – Guest Blog Post by Jean Fain
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 […]
The Convert
She had a well established private practice and was highly trained with a PhD in psychology and had completed psychoanalytic training. Yet, she was coming to me to be both tutored and supervised in Motivational Interviewing (MI). I was surprised. Here was a therapist who had a well developed theoretical orientation and, from her initial […]
