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Listen to Your Body Talk - By Ilene LeshinskyWhen Women Stop Hating Their Bodies - By Ilene LeshinskyWe Owe It To Our Daughters - By Ilene Leshinsky- Physical Therapy for Chronic Pain - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2013 from Igor StilerPhysical therapy programs are scheduled after reviewing your medical history, age and health conditions. These are effective in treating chronic neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain. Physical Therapy – Effective Choice to Alleviate Chronic Pain Chronic pain due to different illnesses and ...
Views: 61(1 vote) - What would Barbie Do---How to love more than just your body - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2013 from Rita SchulteLet’s face it Barbie is a cultural icon. There aren’t too many people who are known on a first-name only basis. She’s in the category with Elvis, Beyoncé, and Oprah. To make matters worse—she’s perfect. She’s 54 years old and super sexy. She has a perfect body, perfect hair, and a perfect ...
Views: 111(2 votes) - Truth or Cellulite?--the nature of perception by Johanna Courtleigh - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2013 from Johanna Courtleigh, MA,Perception is a quirky thing. Because, sometimes, lurking in the not-too-hidden recesses of our minds, is a part of us that wants to keep us in pain, shame, hopelessness. And it often it does this by lying to us. Even in the face of evidence to the contrary. And we believe . . . We must ...
Views: 212 - ***A New Look at New Year’s Resolutions - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyWow, it’s 2010! Is anyone besides me wondering what happened to 2009? Do any of us remember the resolutions we made at the beginning of last year? If you’re like most people, by January 1st you had a list of resolutions that revolved around weight loss and exercise habits. And… if you’re like ...
Views: 168 - ***The Greatest Love of All - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskySomewhere in the mid 1980’s, during that fifteen year stretch in between husband #1 and my second and forever husband, the song “The Greatest Love of All” came out. It was popularized by Whitney Houston but my favorite version is the one by George Benson. The song is about learning to love one’s ...
Views: 286(1 vote) - ***We’re All in the Same Boat - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyIn my office waiting room, I have an oil painting of a small rowboat adrift on the sea. The boat is empty, about to go under and the sea is turbulent. It was painted by a former client, a young woman who I met when she had been struggling with bulimia for seven years. She gave me that painting ...
Views: 120 - ***The Female Prosperity Hormone…Oxytocin - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyEver hear of Oxytocin? No, not the painkiller, oxycontin, but the hormone that is released in childbirth and assists in the bonding experience between mother and child. Well, more and more research is demonstrating that oxytocin is also the female prosperity hormone, and responsible for not only ...
Views: 187 - ***The Gifts of Menopause - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyHot flashes. Night sweats. Vaginal dryness. Thinning pubic hair. Mental confusion. Increased depression, anxiety, and irritability. Slower metabolism. Thickening waistline. Weight gain. Thinning bones. Wrinkling skin. Decreased sex drive. Painful intercourse. Yes, these and more are the many ...
Views: 196 - ***Free at Last from Diet and Weight Obsessions - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyIn her 1985 book, entitled “Making Peace with Food”, Susan Kano chronicles her decision to feed her body, rather than starving it and to no longer focus on weight, size, and body obsessions. The book is part autobiography and part practical guide and is as relevant today as it was when she wrote ...
Views: 218 - ***The Long and Winding Road…to Self-Acceptance - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyI am 63 years old! Have I ever told you that? I realized that I seldom reveal my actual age these days. Not because of the stereotypical female thing – we lie about our age and our weight. And I never was that way when I was younger. In fact, I threw myself a fortieth birthday party and proudly ...
Views: 224 - ***Learning to Be Happy - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyI have a client who says to me every now and again, “I wish I had your life. You always seem so happy.” I smile and think about some of the “discussion” I have had with my husband or that the cost of medical attention for our animals is putting my vet in a higher tax bracket or how irritated I ...
Views: 184 - ***BodySense: Make Eating a Mindful Experience - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyA while ago, one of my clients gave birth and decided to breastfeed her infant so she often brought her baby to therapy. Sometimes in the middle of session, it was time to eat. I’d watch the baby start to cry, curl her fists, scrunch up her face, and make rigid her little body. She was hungry ...
Views: 201 - ***Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyThis summer, I did one of the most courageous things a woman can do – I tried on bathing suits – and actually purchased two! We were going on vacation in August, renting a house for a week on the Atlantic and I wanted to go to the beach in a bathing suit that flattered my body type and felt ...
Views: 187 - ***If You’re an Emotional Eater, Wait Ten Minutes - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyI was in a car accident recently. It wasn’t a big one and thank God no one was hurt. However, accidents are jolting and can make us feel very vulnerable. After the initial shock, I wanted to eat. For me and for many of us, food calms and soothes. It transports us from our fears, our anxieties, ...
Views: 200 - ***“There is Beauty in the World…” And It Comes in All Shapes and Sizes - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2013 from Ilene LeshinskyA couple of things happened this past August that made me wonder about beauty and what it means to be beautiful. At the beginning of the month, I went to a fancy schmantzy family wedding in Newport, Rhode Island. There were people there I had not seen in decades. (That’s what happens when ...
Views: 259(1 vote) - *** Addicted to Food? Maybe Not - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2013 from Ilene Leshinsky“I’m addicted to food.” “I’m a foodacholic”. I hear many of my clients express these beliefs and if the truth be told, I used to say the same things about myself. I remember planning binges that consisted of high fat, high sugar, and high salt foods. One of my favorite “meals” after a long, hard ...
Views: 205 - True Confidence Doesn’t Come from Appearance - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2013 from Kasperi ApellPeople can gain confidence from a variety of things: their social status, wealth, career, looks or their personal relationship with themselves. The thing is – not all of these sources provide equal kind of confidence. Confidence that is based on wealth, for example, isn’t really related to ...
Views: 260(3 votes) - Get Rid that Stubborn Fat! Use Bella Vi Afire - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2013 from David LohanWeight loss efforts are one of the most problematic things for many people to do. Losing weight is not an easy task. In fact, to some it is a never ending struggle. Trying all possible means to lost that stubborn fats and yet, nothing happens. The result of the struggle only leads to more ...
Views: 524(1 vote) - Responding to the Call of Self-Love - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2012 from Debbi DickinsonWhat is Self-Love? For me, Self-Love means that I am making my needs a priority in my life. Society teaches women to put the needs of others in front of ourselves. For years I did that. Work came first. When I married, my husband came first. Then when my daughter was born her needs ...
Views: 201(1 vote) - ***Body Acceptance: What We Can Learn from Men - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyI think that men have it easier than women. No, I’m not going to discuss the state of the feminist movement in 2013, nor the equal pay for equal work debate. However, I am going to state that men have more body acceptance than women – and we women can learn a lot about this from ...
Views: 749(3 votes) - ***What I Learned When I was Single - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyWhen I was twenty-four years old, I became a divorced woman. I had been married for four and a half years and in relationship with this man/ boy since I was eighteen. Getting divorced rocked my world, turned it upside down, pulled the rug out from under me, and knocked me on my tushy. All the ...
Views: 723(1 vote) - ***Real Men Love Real Women - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyOne of the reasons I love my husband so much is that he thinks most of the models in the Victoria Secret catalogues are “too skinny”. Yes, that’s a direct quote and boy, am I glad, since at five feet tall and a size 8 petite, I’ll never make the front cover – nor the inside pages for that ...
Views: 329 - ***Proud to Be a Tortoise! - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyRemember the Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare”? It’s the story of a lightning-fast rabbit and a plod-along turtle that are seemingly mismatched in a race. It was the tortoise, annoyed with the hare’s boastful assertions of being faster than the wind, that challenged the hare. To the ...
Views: 314(1 vote) - Go See a Counselor When Dealing With Your Mental Health Issues - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2012 from Stanley PopovichBy: Stan Popovich When your dealing with your mental health issues and your fears, it is important to get some help from a counselor. Here are some reasons why it is important to get professional help to help cope with your fears and anxieties. Getting some kind of help can lead to ways on ...
Views: 226(1 vote) - ***Body Image – Self Image - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyA hundred years ago, Renoir painted “La Toilette” (The Bather), a portrait of a young woman in the nude. She has long, auburn hair, full breasts and hips, a rounded belly, and, if the truth be told, thighs that look like mine. She’s voluptuous and she’s beautiful! One hundred years ago she was ...
Views: 404(1 vote) - Hypnotism for Mind-body Connection - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2012 from Kemila ZsangeWe hear it said that mind and body are not two separate aspects of us, they are connected; yet we keep thinking that we hate this part of our body, we dislike that part of our body. Once I was teaching a course “Self-Hypnosis for Weight Loss”, and I asked participants before we got into the ...
Views: 532(2 votes) - Do blood disorder disabilities have compensation rights? - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2012 from Martin JoyPersonal hygiene and cleanliness are the factors affect the functioning of the body systems. The efficient functioning depends upon the food intake and the existing environment. There are elevated risks of food adulteration in the market which affects the digestive and respiratory systems and ...
Views: 275 - Ugly Truths - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2012 from Amy TorresDuring psychotherapy many clients have admitted to me that they "feel ugly". What inevitably comes to light, as the work continues, is that feelings of ugliness are really feelings of shame and unlovableness. Our sense of who we are begins with how our mother looks into our eyes. What we see ...
Views: 521(1 vote) - ***Learning to Be Number One! - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyThis past winter I was watching a football game with my husband and the TV camera panned across the stadium. A whole section of fans raised large foam fists with extended index fingers and shouted “We’re #1!” That moment got me thinking about what it means to be number one. Regarding what? To ...
Views: 460(1 vote) - Lacking Confidence to Be Happy? Learn the Movie Stars Tricks! - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2012 from Janice DaviesLacking Confidence to Be Happy? Learn the Movie Stars Tricks! Fifty percent of the people in the world are searching for happiness, success, confidence, money and love. At birth new babies were not given a book with instructions and neither were most new parents, so everyone bungled along ...
Views: 539 - ***Yes, You Can Stop Eating! - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskySo many women I know say something like this: I don’t know when to stop eating. I need a zipper on my mouth and someone to pull it shut because I don’t know how to stop. I’m out of control around food. I’m an addict and food is my drug of choice. These thoughts and feelings make us feel bad ...
Views: 500 - ***To Eat or Not to Eat: That is the Question - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyHow do we know if we’re hungry? Have you ever had the experience of eating foods that you love when you are genuinely, physically hungry? When your body has signaled you that it is hungry? If you have, then you know that eating from hunger, from true physical hunger, is one of the most joyous ...
Views: 827 - ***On Your Mark… Get Set… Go to Your Natural Weight! - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyThe last time that I participated in an organized weight loss program was about thirty years ago, but I remember the experience as if it was yesterday. “What number do you want as your goal weight?” asked the receptionist at my first visit. I chose a number that I had weighed after my divorce ...
Views: 460 - ***Get a Ph.D. in Body Image! - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyI’m getting a Ph. D.! According to Dr. Christiane Northrup, any woman who looks at her naked body in a full-length mirror, every day, is in a Body Image Ph.D. program. You may have seen Dr. Northrup during Mountain Lake PBS fundraisers and she’s written several books including “Women’s Bodies, ...
Views: 481 - The Truth About Getting In Shape. - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2012 from Chris SuttonThe Truth about Getting in Shape: Where It Starts and What It Takes by Christopher Sutton If you're cracking this book open and expecting to see a ton of pictures of guys lifting weights, doing resistance bands, running up mountains, counting calories, and all that good stuff -- this ...
Views: 654(1 vote) - The State of Nudism In the USA - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2012 from young naturistsThis may come as a surprise to some, but nudism is on the rise in the United States. In fact, it is one of the fastest growing recreational activities in the country. The appeal of the activity may be lost on many people. For many others, however, nudism represents an aspect of life that has ...
Views: 710 - ***My Story - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyWhen I was a very little girl, the story goes, I didn’t eat very much. This made my mother anxious and insecure. In those days, babies were supposed to be plump. So with prompting from my grandmother, she found “creative” ways to get me to eat, what they considered “enough”. One strategy she ...
Views: 465(1 vote) - ***Body Image Insights from an Aging Goddess - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyMarch is my birthday month. As you are reading this I am now 42 years old. Okay, I’m using the new math – that 60 is the new 40. On every birthday, I take time to reflect on my life. Am I happy with my work? Yes! Am I happy in my marriage? Yes! Do I like getting older? Yes… and no. It’s ...
Views: 442 - ***Exploring the Innate Wisdom of the Body - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskySometimes I feel like a salmon, swimming upstream to fulfill its biological imperative, getting bloodied and battered in the process. Although my spawning days are long gone, I do feel pushed, compelled, called, however, to send the message to any woman (or man) willing to listen: Our bodies, ...
Views: 511 - ***Find Your Own Way - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyAs I write this article in late December, the annual influx of television commercials and magazine ads for weight loss programs has begun. Supplements, frozen foods, points, meal cards, meal replacements, on-line calculators, exercise machines, videos, balls and bands. Some promote themselves ...
Views: 564(1 vote) - ***Don’t Pull the Trigger! - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskySo did you make your list? Your list of triggers? Last month I asked us to explore the emotions, situations, and foods that propel us down the path to unconscious, mindless eating. Regardless of what they are, how long-standing and deep-seated, we no longer have to respond to our discomfort by ...
Views: 470 - Auto Accidents, Vision Loss and Detection of Glaucoma with Unique Tonometer Diaton - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2012 from Alina LagoviyerGlaucoma has been found to increase the risk of unsafe driving and doubles collisions. Drivers with vision problems due to glaucoma may be denied driving licenses. Glaucoma Eye Test and early detection is the key to halting further vision impairment, and ensuring driving privileges, as well as ...
Views: 400 - How to Have More Muscle - Success Solutions for Skinny Guys - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2012 from Kenneth DockinsSkinny guys and other body building candidates desire to cut through the mire of misinformation that exists online. For example, is it true that varying your workout routines will enhance your success with muscle building training? Regarding the topic of how to have more muscle, not every ...
Views: 738 - Which is the best underwear Fabric? - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2012 from adam gillbertEveryone wants to feel comfortable on whatever they wear in their body. Especially if it’s the inner garment, you don’t want to be seen feeling uncomfortable with yourself especially among your peers. That’s why it’s important that when you go to purchase Men Underwear you choose carefully the ...
Views: 503 - ***Hunger: Friend or Foe? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyAccording to the countless weight management commercials and advertisements that we see on television and in print, hunger is our enemy. Hunger has to be controlled, managed, ignored, or tamed. And feeding our hunger will set off a cycle of frenzied, nonstop eating. Right? Wrong! Before I ...
Views: 480(1 vote) - ***So If Diets Don’t Work, What Does? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyThe very next day after I submitted last month’s Jill article, in which I complained about feeling like a lone salmon, swimming in a sea of diet messages, trying to convey the innate wisdom of the body, I received my monthly issue of Psychotherapy Networker. The cover read Diets and Our Demons. ...
Views: 467 - How to Overcome low self-image by challenging Media representation of women - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2012 from Merissa BuryWith the massive barrage of advertisements that showcase flawless and sexually desirable women, it is no surprise that young girls worldwide are plagued with self-image issues. Whether it is the half-naked vodka girl or the latest celebrity bombshell, in almost every media outlet, there seems to ...
Views: 471(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: Is This Unhealthy? What Should I Do? - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2012 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: Do I have an unhealthy celebrity obsession? I really need answers and help! I feel this is still unresolved? Does anyone else have an obsession with a particular celebrity to the degree that you wanna look, act, talk, dress and live like them. I do, I wanna look like ...
Views: 387 - Spinal Problem and General Information for you - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2012 from abigel daveNormally there is many search the location and different way of gym and health related option where you can improve your health and fit your body and related exercise are available which is help you to think that yoga and special type of fitness related yoga mostly it is work for related to ...
Views: 871 - ***What Are your Triggers? - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2012 from Ilene LeshinskyI’ve been doing this for many, many years – following the philosophy of attuned eating, practicing what I preach in my BodySense groups. And yet every now and again, I find myself eating when I’m not hungry. And when that happens, I don’t select healthy, nutritious foods, I go right for the ...
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