"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 @recoverwithmeda ・・・ LGBTQ youth are at particular risk for developing eating disorders and poor body image. We want to utilize #Pride⁠ ⁠month as an opportunity to raise awareness that help is available. Do not hesitate to reach out to MEDA [or a professional of your liking] for support. We are here for you! . . . #pride🌈 #pridemonth #eatingdisorderrecovery #edrecovery #edwarrior #edawareness #prorecovery #recovery #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtpride
My apologies for going a little radio silent on Instagram recently - so much stuff has been going on and I‘ve been barely able to keep up! As it is, I‘m in the middle of more solution-focused dialogue and coaching training, I have just completed an online addiction medicine diploma, cannabis will be legalized in Canada on October 17th, I had to decide whether or not to lease a second office location (which I would have loved to do, but it‘s not quite the right time to expand just yet), I am waiting to graduate from McMaster, tossing around ideas for collaborations and regarding what to do next, and I have been slowly increasing my client hours, which is so cool. So yeah, I‘ve been pretty busy. ;)
#Repost @immaeatthat ・・・ 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #Repost @mindfuleatsnutrition with @get_repost ・・・ 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 🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. 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 wouldn’t watch the competition if the women didn’t wear swimsuits 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️. Gretchen responded, absolutely we have to be the change we want to see in our culture. It’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, I’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 ・・・ 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 patient’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 it’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. 😉 More Info via substanceusecounselling.com/online-support-group
This, you guys! 👏🏼👏🏼
#Repost @nytimes ・・・ 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 they’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 couldn’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. “We started bawling our eyes out,” Elizabeth told @nytmag. What kind of life does she want for her daughter? “The opposite of mine.” Visit the link in our profile to read more.
My May online support group „Eating, So What?!“ will start tomorrow! It’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!! 💗