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2012 a new year has begun.  We think of what we want to change in our lives and make promises to ourselves how we will be better than the year before.  However, we are creatures of habit and making concrete changes can be very difficult.  I propose a sharing of embodiment daily practice without having [...]

So much of what we attempt to do to feel better is to approach ourselves through our cognition or to alter our cognition.  But feelings underlie higher thoughts, “like a cork floating on the surface of an ocean, consciousness rises and falls with each wave of feelings that passes through the body.”  Try listen to [...]

It is often difficult to put into words, and even harder to justify to politicians, the ways in which dance works its magic – the basis of its transformative powers. We tend as a culture to value only what is tangible and measurable whereas dance is all about the ephemeral, the allusive, the inbetween.

Sufferers of eating disorders have difficulties tolerating and containing feelings. They often describe their experience of being in their bodies as disembodied. This partly due to the constant disengagment or detachment from their inner bodily experience due to their constant eating disorder thoughts of attempting to not eat, focussing on body image and constant mind chatter.

According to popular belief, it is assumed that anorexia is due to a cognitive disturbance of body image. This is often portrayed in images of a very thin girl looking at her reflection in a mirror and seeing an obese figure.

I am constantly thinking of ways to articulate myself. Working with someone struggling with an eating disorder is a real challenge not only in being effective or helpful as a therapist but also in being truly authentic in my therapeutic relationship with the client.