National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Mary Kate Sheridan

Health Issue Midlifers May Be Ashamed To Admit

HuffingtonPost.com | Mary Kate Sheridan | Posted 03.02.2012

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While young women are often the faces of eating disorders, diseases such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating can affect any age -- and recent data s...

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It's Brutal Honesty Time

Rita Schiano | Posted 04.29.2012

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Rita Schiano

For years I've written, spoke, taught and trained about the importance of understanding one's self-worth. I even coined the phrase that self-worth is one element of the equation that makes for self-esteem: Self-confidence plus self-worth equals self-esteem.

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The Scary Reality Of A Real-Life Barbie Doll

Galia Slayen | Posted 06.08.2011

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Galia Slayen

Some people have skeletons in their closet. I have an enormous Barbie in mine.

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It's Time To Talk About It: Everyone Can Do... Just One Thing

Jenni Schaefer | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jenni Schaefer

Eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes. They don't discriminate by size, weight, ethnicity, gender, culture, age, or anything else.

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Family Of Anorexia Victim Speaks Out: 'It Really Took Everything That She Was'

The Iowa State Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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She described herself as a salesperson, a computer program and database manager. Others described her as beautiful, talented, smart, having everything...

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Feeding The Hole In The Soul

Dr. Judi Hollis | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Judi Hollis

Though we have a super-sized appetite for fast food, the national malady has more to do with our spiritual connections: how we live, who we are, how we think, how we love, how we face fear, how we die.

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