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“Most everyone else who ever tried to help me gave up at some point. Lise
never did. She never believed that I was hopeless; never believed that I
wouldn't come out the other side. And her belief in my potential kept my
belief in it alive. It IS the reason that I AM alive. Without Lise's
guidance and undying patience, I would not be the happily married, mother
of two, virtually eating disorder-free person that I am.” LH
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Who I Am
I grew up thinking about food all day
long for years and years and years. I know that if it can be different
for me then it can be different for ANYbody. My own personal
experience compelled me to study the subject. I have a Master’s degree
in Clinical Psychology. I have worked extensively with sufferers and
family members in private practice and hospital settings. Besides my 25 years of
personal experience, I have extensive training in the field of eating
disorders as well.
I believe in TOTAL recovery from
eating disorders. I believe you can learn to trust yourself. I believe you can
get
through a day eating only when you’re hungry and stopping when you’re
satisfied. I have worked with hundreds and hundreds of people who
have come to feel better about their relationship to food, their body
and themselves. It has truly been an honor to have the opportunity to
accompany so many wonderful people into a better, happier life.
What I Believe I believe that EVERYTHING
we do is an attempt to HELP ourselves. At any given time, our eating
patterns represent the best or only way we know how to take care of
ourselves. We DO NOT purposely hurt
ourselves, although the things we do may hurt us. At one time this
coping worked well for us. Now it may not work so well anymore. With this
premise, I want to help you understand how your use of food currently
serves your needs and purposes. Then I want to help you
find more direct ways of helping yourself than through the use (and
distraction) of food and body hatred.
I also believe that if beating ourselves up was going to make us do and
feel better, we would have been happy and ecstatic a long time ago (and you wouldn’t be
reading this page). It is NOT about to happen. You ARE NOT one self-loathing thought away from being happy.
Beating ourselves up will NEVER make us feel good but it will ALWAYS make
us feel bad and it will eat away at any confidence and self esteem we may
have had up to that point. I help people to build the skills that TRULY
work to get free of disordered eating and body hatred. I help you to
unravel your personal myths about yourself and
challenge if they are REALLY true. I help people realize and put into
practice what taking care of themselves truly is. Most people I work with
have no idea they are supposed to feel good, so they have not built the
skill, the practice, of helping themselves to feel good.
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