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♦ PSI Institute Phone: 027 657 2106 E-mail: jlightstone-at-gmail.com RELATIONSHIP AND COUPLES THERAPY ♦ PSI Institute 254 Lincoln Road Henderson Auckland New Zealand ♦ Phone: +64 (0)27 657 2106 ♦
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Auckland PSITM Institute 254 Lincoln Road, Suite 5, 1st Floor Henderson, West Auckland Office right off the Western Motorway For map and directions click here Also link to: Feminist Understanding, Techniques Recommended Books Eating and body image problems can express some of our deepest experiences as women. Issues such as staying true to our hunger/s; defining ourselves within and outside of relationships to others; and taking up space and being visible in a sometimes dangerous world, may show up in our relationships to food and body. Gender roles, the victimization of "fat", and cultural stereotypes all play a role in the development of eating and body image problems. These influences interact with our genetic endowments, family upbringing, and experiences with peers in a multitude of ways. All of this must be brought into our explorations of how a particular problem with food developed the way it did. Throughout we will be working toward increased self esteem and body size acceptance. Acceptance does not mean the same as approval. Like trust, it comes and goes, and has to be earned to be meaningful. But this acceptance can be earned as you struggle to attune yourself to your body's internal signals, work through exercise resistance or compulsion, and prove to yourself that you can become a reliable self-feeder. Also link to: Improving Body Image, Fat, Thin and Power
Therapy for Women with Eating and Body Image ProblemsWhen you come in for your first appointment, you may have a lot to say, or you may be so nervous that you don't know what say. Trust is a key issue, and you may feel afraid to trust or you may want to dive right in. Either way, we will both come to understand that trust is not a static thing - it comes and it goes, and generally has to be earned to be meaningful. While we are exploring these complexities, it's often a relief to start talking. We begin by helping you explore your personal experiences of food, feeding, fat, and body size, and why these issues are so painful. You may have been put on diets or diet pills, forced to eat when you weren't hungry, weighed and lectured by well meaning (or not so well meaning?) doctors or relatives, or felt otherwise disrespected and intruded upon. I will not be weighing you or telling you what or what not to eat. This may feel like a relief, or you may not like that. Some people become dependent on others to tell them what to eat. I will simply be encouraging you to sense your hunger and satiation points, and to notice when you can follow them as guides, and when it seems too difficult.
We may choose to include journal, art, or movement work, and guided fantasies to help you express what the eating problem has been trying to say. Ultimately, you will learn to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. But in the meantime, when you cannot always do this, we will use the symptoms to point us to the triggers and issues in your life that you have been using bingeing, starving, and/or purging to solve. We work these through one by one, until you feel stronger to face these difficulties without depriving or punishing yourself with food. Also link to: Compulsive Overeating, The Diet/Binge/Purge Cycles, Helping a Loved one With an Eatiing Disorder
Also Highly recommended: Feast or Famine: A New Zealand Guide to Understanding Eating Disorders. Karen McMillan. Random House (2006) Other Recommended Books The Obesity Myth: Why our obsession with weight is hazardous to our health. Paul Campos. Penguin (2004) 200 Ways to Love the Body You Have by Marcia Germaine Hutchinson , 1999 The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, Doubleday, 1991. BodyLove: Learning to Like Our Looks and Ourselves, Rita Freeman, Ph.D., Harper & Row, 1988. Transforming Body Image: Learning to Love the Body You Have by Marcia Germaine Hutchinson, EdD , The Crossing Press, 1985. Hunger Strike : The Anorectic's Struggle As a Metaphor for Our Age by Susie Orbach, Norton Books, 1986. The
Obsession : Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness
by Kim Chernin (1984)
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