"Sometimes in life you are lucky enough to meet people who blow your mind with their intelligence, kindness, inner beauty and general amazingness - and Annina is one of these people. You won't be disappointed!"

Danielle Woodcock (MSW, RSW)

 
#Repost @immaeatthat ใƒปใƒปใƒป ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ #Repost @mindfuleatsnutrition with @get_repost ใƒปใƒปใƒป Breaking news! I am sitting here watching the news with my jaw hanging wide open while clapping wildly. @missamerica organization made the decision, led by Gretchen Carlson and the #metoo movement to no longer judge contestants based on outward appearance ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป. They have gotten rid of the swimsuit competition and want women of all shapes and sizes to participate. What an incredible step in the right direction! Gretchen Carlson was asked this morning if she was worried people wouldnโ€™t watch the competition if the women didnโ€™t wear swimsuits ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ. Gretchen responded, absolutely we have to be the change we want to see in our culture. Itโ€™s time we send the message that women do not exist to sit and look pretty for others to gawk at!!! As someone who grew up around pageant culture, Iโ€™m thrilled to see that little girls will have a different type of competition to watch and aspire to be a part of. One that focuses on brains and talent, not bodies. . . . . . . . @abcnews #missamerica #haes #bodypositive #bodyimage #bodykindness #bodylove #recovery #edrecovery #food #rd #rdn #womanempowerment #bodypositivity #bethechange
#Repost @samtryonrd ใƒปใƒปใƒป The other day a woman in her fifties told me that she had one doctor years ago who did not tell her to lose weight. ONE!!!! You could all at once hear how important this caring provider had been as well as the pain of being told by every single other doctor that her weight was a problem that she needed to figure out how to solve. . She described how doctors would shame her without providing any guidance or they would prescribe Weight Watchers (and we all know how that goes). She had not gone to these providers for anything related to her weight and somehow that was always what they wanted to talk about. . I want every medical provider to know that you have a choice. Do you want to be like every other provider who has brought weight stigma into the exam room? Or, do you want to be the one who saw them as more than their weight? . You have the opportunity to be the one who listened to your patient and used your training to help them with their medical concern without making their weight an issue. You can be the one provider who did not make assumptions about them based on their weight. . Providers, you have the chance to change lives in a very real and meaningful way. Be a new chapter in your patientโ€™s life story. I plead that address any weight stigma you may have and treat every single patient with the respect they deserve. #doctorswithoutbias #dontbeajerk
Sign up ASAP to participate in the online support group for anyone struggling with their body image that starts tomorrow (Tuesday)! If itโ€™s any motivation, we need two more members to run the group and helping others while helping yourself is about as useful as recovery gets. ๐Ÿ˜‰ More Info via substanceusecounselling.com/online-support-group
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#Repost @nytimes ใƒปใƒปใƒป Of the estimated 2.1 million Americans currently in the grip of #opioid addiction, many are women of childbearing age. Experts estimate that a baby with an opioid-withdrawal condition called neonatal abstinence syndrome is born in the U.S. every 15 minutes. Some of those babies are born to mothers who go into treatment when theyโ€™re pregnant. The standard of care for a pregnant women addicted to opioids is treatment with the opioid-replacement drug methadone, or a newer drug called buprenorphine. But a fetus adapted to them is still at risk for withdrawal after birth. While on assignment for @nytmag, @littlebrownmushroom took this photo of Elizabeth, 26, and her daughter. Elizabeth had been energized and secretive in the early years of her addiction. She was addicted to Percocet and ultimately began injecting heroin. She attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but she relapsed on heroin 3 times. When she became pregnant, she was taking Percocet. She wanted to taper off the pills. But she couldnโ€™t do it without going into withdrawal, so in her 7th month of pregnancy, she returned to #methadone. When the baby arrived in June, she began showing signs of withdrawal. โ€œWe started bawling our eyes out,โ€ Elizabeth told @nytmag. What kind of life does she want for her daughter? โ€œThe opposite of mine.โ€ Visit the link in our profile to read more.
My May online support group โ€žEating, So What?!โ€œ will start tomorrow! Itโ€™s ideal for anyone struggling with their body image, intrusive thoughts around food and weight loss, dieting, binge eating, overexercising, or emotional eating. Registered Dietitian @joseesovinskyrd will co-facilitate our third session. You can find out more about it via: substanceusecounselling.com/online-support-group Hope to see you there!! ๐Ÿ’—
#Repost from @jennifer_rollin who has recently published a new training on breaking free from anorexia (you can find it through the link in her bio!) ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’— ใƒปใƒปใƒป Bodies are meant to change over time, and thatโ€™s perfectly ok.* * Instead of blaming your body when something doesnโ€™t fit-get some awesome new clothes to fit the body that you have RIGHT NOW.* * You were not put on this earth to spend all of your precious time trying to shrink yourself down. * You deserve to take up all of the space that you need in this world. ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป * Image found via @bodyposipanda
Hello and welcome to all those who are new to my feed! ๐Ÿ˜œ I just quickly wanted to point out that I have a bunch of *free* materials available for you on my homepage (substanceusecounselling.com/free), including webinars, an email mini course on self-care, a workbook about substance use, and a newsletter that I send out about once a week. The next issue will be entitled: โ€œWhat If Treatment Doesnโ€™t Work?โ€. You can sign up for it via substanceusecounselling.com/newsletter ๐Ÿ’Œ Once a month, I mail out a separate newsletter edition for fellow professionals, too (same URL to sign up). ๐Ÿค“ Do feel free to take a look around my homepage and grab as many freebies as you like! ๐Ÿ’—