Alli Spotts-De Lazzer, M.A. - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - Certified Eating Disorders Specialist
Posted by in Blog If you want to feel better about yourself, should you try improving your self-esteem or self-compassion? A journal article published on August 3, 2023, “A Narrative Review and Meta-Analysis on Their Links to Psychological Problems and Well-Being,” can help answer that question. Both self-concepts are assumed to play roles in well-being, which research supports. And both can…Read more »
Posted by in Blog Many of us make resolutions we won’t meet or maintain. For example, refer to past years when you’ve said, “It’s going to be different this time.” And then, once again, it ended up a resolution shmesolution. This year, before you set your promises in stone in your mind or on paper, I invite you to…Read more »
Posted by in Blog I rarely intensely focus on “body image” or “body dissatisfaction.” Why? Well, let’s think about this. If we try to find love for “it” or focus on parts of “it” or the size or “it,” I see these attempts as further splitting us from our wholeness. A body, to me, isn’t an “it” that separates…Read more »
Posted by in Blog As we shift towards summer, many people will start diets. In addition to dieting being a potential trigger for people biologically susceptible to eating disorders, the difficult part of this is that diets have been proven to not work. Add this to the focus on “beach bodies” and “swimsuit ready,” and we have a recipe…Read more »