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National Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2012 6:43 PM
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NEDA Awareness Week: Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:48 PM
Can You Tell Anything at All by a Person's Weight? By Deb Burgard, PhD If you have grown up in this culture, you probably associate quite a few things with fatness and quite a few of the opposite traits with thinness. Almost every audience comes up with the same lists:
Fat: - Lazy
- Depressed
- Sick
- Out of control
- LoserBad
Thin: - Productive
- Confident
- Healthy
- Disciplined
- Sexy
- Good
Even though these associations are not something people from other cultures (or other times in history) believe, they are so strong and unquestioned in our own time that they form the basis of our weight stereotyping, bias, and stigma. |
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MCS Team: Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 6:00 PM
National Eating Disorder Week is Feb. 26th-March 3rd 2012.
Check back regularly here, at our MCS Blog, for tips, resources, stories, and encouragement.
Follow Miller Counseling Services!
Want more information on National Eating Disorders Week? Check out NEDAhere.
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Susan Miller, PhD, LPCS, NCC, BCPCC: Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012 12:02 PM
A Woman’s Life Journey of Body
Acceptance Part Three:Moving into Body
Acceptance for Women
 For women,
body image issues can continue to dominate our acceptance of self through out
the college and adult years, ranging from focus on parts of our body we do not
like to ways that we feel in our body movement.
A woman’s journey of body acceptance takes many twists and turns as we
go into childbearing years, our mid life and as we age into our sliver years. I have found, like the writer of the Real
Simple article, that my journey as been similar in accepting this bigger built,
less coordinated body of mine! |
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Susan S. Miller, PhD, LPCS, NCC: Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:29 AM
A Woman’s Life Journey of Body
Acceptance Part 2 of 3: Teen Women Body Blues The teen
years present a mix of fears related to body image for girls. This is magnified
with normal insecurities regarding self-acceptance. Mixed messages are present from society’s
view of what is beauty. Girls are transforming into women as their bodies
develop at different paces, sizes and shapes.
One memory
that stands out to me in my body image journey as a teen was the way I felt
around my petite friends. |
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Lori Tibbits, MA, LPC: Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:54 AM
As I was driving to work the other day, listening to one of Dan Allendar’s recorded sessions from his Wounded Heart series, he made a statement that really caught my attention:
When you take away hope, you take away your identity.
Once you stop desiring, you stop dreaming.
Once you stop desiring and dreaming, you stop becoming. When you stop becoming, you live a flat, dull life of the status quo. You settle for becoming a survivor. You get up everyday and do the same old things over and over and over never truly loving any of it or living out of your identity. |
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Sarah Miller, MA: Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:46 PM
Dr. Susan Miller will be featured on NBC17's My Carolina Today Wed. 11/9 at 11am.
She will be talking about dealing with grief during the holidays. Tune in! :-)
The link for online viewing post-air date will be posted here as well in case you miss it. |
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MCS Team: Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:02 PM
We all go through spells of feeling outed by friends and family. But sometimes those feelings are routed in unconscious patterns developed from past experiences.
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Susan S. Miller, PhD, LPCS, NCC: Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:03 PM
Recently
I experienced an emotional overload that came upon me unexpectedly! I actually was not aware that I was carrying
around such a load of tears until I went to visit my precious grand-niece, who
is my sister’s name sake. My sister had
passed away in April of 2009, after a swift tumultuous bout with ovarian
cancer. My grand-niece was born two
years later, almost to the date of my sister’s passing. |
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Lori Tibbits, MA, LPC: Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 9:19 AM
Soul healing should take place on
an individual level and an inter-personal level.
Soul healing is not a black and white, “just follow this
plan” concept. It is a life-long journey of listening to your soul and
attending to your soul’s needs. In our secular, materialistic culture, our
souls are often overlooked. Instead, we fill our lives with tasks, business,
and entertainment. A good movie and a bowl of chocolate ice cream are how most
of us attempt to take care of our souls.
 Ignoring the soul’s needs for too
long will leave one feeling lost and empty. |
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