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Food Addiction
March 11, 2021
Ever since I was a little kid I have loved to eat healthy foods. I was that little eight-year-old who would gladly pile my plate with broccoli, green beans, or whatever vegetable my mother might have cooked on a given […]
Read MoreHope for a New Year
December 30, 2019
It’s hard to find a more hopeful time of the year than the Christmas season. We are all just different in the four weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. People spend more time with family, smile more often at total […]
Read MoreWorth The Risk?
May 29, 2018
One look at your Facebook feed and you will quickly see that the Supreme Court has struck down a law prohibiting gambling on sporting events. Everyone from amateur sports fans to ESPN and the New York Times […]
Read MoreGoals
December 26, 2017
I sat in my clinical office one Friday afternoon feeling utterly helpless as I hung up the phone after talking with my friend. Two weeks earlier I had referred him to an addictions treatment center a few hours away so […]
Read MoreWhat Rats Can Teach Us About Getting ‘Unstuck’
April 21, 2017
Have you ever wondered why some people are able to change their diet and exercise habits and lose significant amounts of weight while other people get stuck in negative lifestyle choices that keep them overweight and unhealthy? Why are some […]
Read MoreThe One Parenting Mistake You Can’t Make
May 23, 2016
I’ll never forget the moment I stood in the delivery room holding our baby boy in my arms for the first time. He stared at me intently as if to ask, “What the heck just happened?” I stared back at […]
Read MoreThe Rise of Heroin Addictions
February 4, 2016
I’ll never forget the frantic phone call I received from a family member about a year ago informing me that Robbie had died of a heroin overdose. Robbie was the 19 year old child of one of my oldest friends […]
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