Carrie sat in my office, sobbing. “All I do these days is cry,” she said. “Or I’m flying off the handle with uncontrollable rage, or I’m exceptionally happy for a little while but there’s a huge crash that soon follows,” she added. [...]
Updated 07/09/2023 “How much do you know about the HPA Axis?” I asked Tina when she told me how stressful her life was, and how lousy she’d been feeling. Her confused look said it all – she had no idea what I [...]
Updated 08/27/2023 The past three years have been stressful, to say the least. While anxiety around Covid-19 has subsided, there’s still a lot of crazy things happening in the world, and we’ve all come to realize that things can change in a [...]
Losing weight as a woman with PCOS can be a major challenge. Losing weight as a woman, especially for the long term, is a challenge to begin with! But this is a common struggle that I really wish more women and more [...]
Updated: Nov. 12th, 2023 When was the last time you felt exhausted, anxious, and overwhelmed? If you’re like many women I know, you won’t have to think too hard to come up with this - and it wasn’t that long ago! Do [...]
Picture this: it’s a regular Tuesday, and you’re at the grocery store picking up a few essentials for dinner. You’re walking along, finding everything you need, feeling perfectly content. And then you turn down the coffee and tea aisle, ready to pick [...]
Headlines in the supermarket checkout line about the “perfect diet” or “miracle weight loss” programs frustrate me, because so often these media teasers are deceiving and damaging to women’s self esteem. These headlines so often focus only on appearances, not on the [...]
I have a friend, Katie, who is a master juggler of the pieces of her life. For years, she’s taken on extra work, volunteered, raised children, helped her aging parents - all without letting anything fall through the cracks. This ability to [...]
Updated 3/05/2023 “If there’s a diet out there, I’ve tried it,” Marisol told me. From the balanced Mediterranean to keto, low FODMAP, vegan, and too many fads to count, my new patient had long been on the hunt for the diet that [...]
Women have long been hoping for a “magic” solution to their weight loss struggles. I’ve seen some women do some crazy things in an effort to drop weight -- eating nothing but grapefruit for a week, drinking far more black coffee than [...]
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