This is key questions and answers from Dr. Amanda’s podcast and Youtube interview with Tashina Kabbaz, a doctoral student at Lehigh University in the area of educational leadership. She also is an educational and cultural specialist for VAST the Vehicle Against Sex Trafficking in the Lehigh Valley. If you or Read more…
Recently, I conducted a webinar about the power of words. Some of the key points are helpful when responding and thinking about the words we use every day. A word by itself does not hold weight until a positive or negative event happens and then positive or negative feelings attach Read more…
This past Friday, the Clubhouse social media event that I was moderating called, Healthy Family Connections, included over 75 women discussing how to keep connection during hard conversations. Three key ideas were talked about that are consistent with research findings. It is important to hear and listen to your child, Read more…
Almost 80% of children and youth report their parents and guardians as the people they go to help them make decisions. What does this mean? It means that if a child or youth is trying to decide something about their life, they want to go to their guardian(s) or parent(s) Read more…
Last week, I facilitated a Healthy Family Connections group on clubhouse that led us to discuss the Top 10 Ways to Communicate. Over 20 women came into the room to listen or speak about this topic during the hour. Many of the women requested the Top 10 Ways to Communicate Read more…
What do most of us want in life? A family. Family can be both bloodlines where we are born into the family. Also, a family can be a group of people who are not related but consider each other family due to the close bond they have with each other. Read more…
What does it mean to navigate through Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)? BDD is a condition that may influence the amount of times a person view themselves in the mirror but almost as if they have on a distorted lens of themselves. By definition, BDD is a condition that may cause Read more…
Acute or chronic stress may change an individual’s eating patterns due to psychological and emotional stressors (Cameron, Maguire, & McCormack, 2011). Survivors of sexual trauma may have more psychological and physical stress leading to an increase in food intake that is used as a coping skill. (Connors & Morse, 2006) Read more…
Binge eating is one disorder that can result to eating food on an ongoing basis and the loss of control of self-discipline and regulation without any form of purging. A deep description of both disorders will lead to ways to support individuals on this journey.. Traumatic exposure is more common Read more…
Childhood trauma such as emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect are often a common denominator with eating disorders (Utzinger, Haukebo, Simonich, & Wonderlich, 2018). Eating disorders include binge eating disorders, both Bulimia Nervosa and binge eating disorder without vomiting. Interestingly, a history of emotional abuse happens more often Read more…