My good friend and colleague Therese Waterhous, a PhD, RD eating disorder specialist and board member of the parent organization F.E.A.S.T., called me the other day. She needed to vent,…
It’s not very common for me to hear things out of the mouths of our patients that I have not heard before—I have heard most things many, many times. For…
I was born in 1949, the second World War had been over for a mere four years. As a girl raised in the 50’s and 60’s I was taught to…
Advances in medicine come in all shapes and sizes: vaccines, antibiotics, anti-virals, immune system boosters and reducers, technological changes and recently, the hope that faster, cheaper and more accurate genetic…
It has become almost trite to advise parents struggling with the “severe pushback” of doing battle with their child’s eating disorder to remember that flight attendants caution parents travelling with…
Eating disorders strike children at virtually all stages of development. Sometimes we think it’s most difficult when they strike a very young child, sometimes it seems the most difficult when…
Have you ever wondered what to tell your other children and family members about your child’s eating disorder? Have you ever wished you had a child friendly, succinct and upbeat…
Sometimes things happen to me that cause me to wonder what planet I have landed on. Five years ago -- to say nothing of ten or fifteen -- whenever I…
I was recently sent an article from which I will be quoting extensively here (it’s also included in this newsletter - ed.). The article is by Heidi Mills, writing for…
I am asked this nearly every week by one parent or another, and I answer reflexively “of course”. In order to do what we do at Kartini Clinic we have…
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