I often hear from clients something along the lines of, "If someone overheard this, they'd probably think I was being irresponsible." Early in my career, I was quick to label this as a cognitive distortion and guess that it was stemming from an insecurity or fear. But there's another way to understand this pattern that gives us more choice in how we use it: I call this the "invisible audience" strategy. What's the invisible audience? When you mentally step outside yourself an

I am what some might call "an open book," by which I mean that in most contexts, disclosing information about myself doesn't bring up much emotion. Once upon a time in group therapy, I was known to roll my eyes at every "Thank you for sharing that." I have since come to learn that neither I nor my fellow group members were right or wrong about this. Instead, the group consisted of a diverse sampling of vulnerability languages, or things that each of us experience as vulnerabl

Given that every individual has a sensory profile as unique as our fingerprints, and that every sense is involved in our experience of embodiment, it only makes sense that the way we approach healing our relationships with our bodies should be adapted to fit our very specific sensory needs.  It’s exciting to hear more and more eating disorder providers remark that treatment can no longer be “one-size-fits-all.” But when individualizing a plan for healing, how are they taking