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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a special book on eating problems!, August 6, 2009
By Dr. David Shaw (Jupiter, Florida) -
This review is from: Not Your Mother's Diet: The Cure for Your Eating Issues (Paperback)
Kathleen Fuller's, Not you Mother's Diet: The Cure for your Eating Issues, is an amazingly well written book on the very complex topic of eating problems. As a Psychologist in the field for thirty years I have come across many interesting books on this subject, however, most were either too complex or too basic for the average reader. This book on the other hand is the perfect balance. It is very specific with numerous real life examples and easy techniques that are really helpful. It's a type of workbook that doesn't read like a typical workbook, which are often too difficult to read and digest. Dr.Fuller's book is a sweet,loving, and gentle read, easy to get through, yet, packed with so many practical hands on techniques that are so useful. I have already recommended this fantastic book to many family,friends, and patients/clients, and have found it useful as a psychotherapist myself in my own clinical work with patients. In addition, the techniques in this book are easiy generalizable to other problems like stress, anxiety, and depression. I give this fantastic book my highest review/recommendation!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Tools for Your Feelings
A Feelings Tool
Journal Questions to Ask When You’re Stuck in Your Emotions
Remember when you do this questioning part of the exercise, you need to
make the effort and be persistent. Results will follow.
Question 1: What are my thoughts in connection to this feeling?
Question 2: What did I think next? How did I feel about it?
Keep asking the above questions and write down as many answers as you get,
boiling it down for as long as it takes, until you get to the bottom where there are
no more thoughts and no more feelings.
A Second Feelings Tool
Drawing Can Uncover What’s Hidden for You
Next draw a stick figure or something else that represents where you are after the last question. Put a dialogue balloon over its head and let the drawing speak to you. What would it say if you drew anything else?
Write three sentences that begin with, “I am _____________” underneath the picture and finish the sentence with a different characteristic of what you felt when you drew the picture.
Remember to do the best you can. There is no right or wrong way to do this
drawing. The important thing is to take action and do it. When you draw, use symbols and images—-the easiest language for the subconscious to understand. This exercise is valuable in beginning to clear out feelings that are blocking you.
After you do this exercise, wait a few minutes and see if you start feeling better. Then check again later in the day to see if the feelings have decreased in intensity. Learn to look for shifts and little steps that will lead you to feeling better. You’ll find as you check in with your feelings, you’ll learn which ones lead to overeating, bingeing, starving or other compulsive eating behaviors.
Acknowledging unconscious habits and fear of feelings, rather than denying them, puts you on your way to balancing them and finding out what will truly make you happy. Feelings are the key to your truth.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
An Exercise to Stop Being a Victim
When I was a little girl, I used to enjoy the Highlights for Children Magazines where there were pictures and I was asked to find, ”What’s wrong with this picture?” I loved finding all the out-of-place items in the drawing.
When things start to change in my life and I get uncomfortable with the change and the unknown, I ask, “What’s right about this picture?”
Look at the change that might happen after wherever is your stressful situation, and write down all the things that are blessings in disguise.
When you get tired of the victim game (which either “Poor ME” or “Angry ME”), you take the first step toward mastery of change and mastery of your boundaries.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Exercise to stop Being a Victim
When I was a little girl, I used to enjoy the Highlights for Children Magazines where there were pictures and I was asked to find, ”What’s wrong with this picture? I loved finding all the out-of-place items in the drawing.
When things start to change in my life and I get uncomfortable with the change and the unknown, I ask, “What’s right about this picture?”
Look at the change that might happen after doing the previous questions, and write down all the things that are blessings in disguise.
When you get tired of the victim game, you take the first step toward mastery of change and mastery of your boundaries.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Dynamic Re-Patterning for Changing Your Feelings or Your Attitude
Connect Your Energy Circuits
EDU-K- Go to this link under the title of Education and click on Brain Gym site: http://www.notyourmothersdiet.com/resourses.hmt
What is the value of the following article? The re-patterning exercises and information can change your life, your feelings and your attitude if you are willing. Be willing is the key to your success. How do I know, because this how I overcame many challenges in my life and learning.
WHAT IS EDU-K?
Educational Kinesiology teaches specific movements of the body that can improve mind function. It uses techniques such as re-patterning, which is the integration of the left and right hemispheres of the brain through specific movements; stress release techniques; and balancing the energy/meridian system of the body.
The two brain gym exercises I want to share are renamed from emotional stress release points from Touch for Health to Dr. Paul Dennison’s Positive Points & Cook’s Hook Up, and now I will rename them “Change Your Feelings Points” and “Connect Your Energy Circuits”.
“Change Your Feelings Points”
1. Take a break for 3 minutes and go where it is quiet.
2. Close your eyes and look upward at a point between your eyebrows and tell yourself to relax.
3. Lightly hold the points about an inch above your eyebrows for 1-3 minutes.
These points bring gentle energy to your frontal lobes where rational thought is available without emotional distractions. These are the neurovascular balance spots for the stomach meridian in Chinese Medicine. Thus the tension you experience is eased and decreases a nervous stomach.
“Connect Your Energy Circuits”
1. Sit in a chair and study the illustration above.
2. Cross your left leg over your right leg so that the ankle is over your right knee.
3. You grasp your left ankle with your right hand.
4. You put your left hand around the ball of your left foot.
5. You sit in this position, taking 3 deep into your belly breaths. You put your tongue against the roof of your mouth on inhalation. Relax the tongue as you exhale.
6. After 3 minutes uncross your legs
7. You can let the finger tips of your hands touch together.
8. You can continue to breathe deeply and exhale twice as long as you inhale.
9. If you are more comfortable to begin put your right leg over left leg and so on-
This was invented by Wayne Cook, an expert in electromagnetic energy and enables you to activate all the Chinese acupuncture meridians into a more balance and harmonized state. As Dr. Paul Dennison wrote “Excessive energy to the receptive (right or back) brain can manifest as depression, pain, fatigue, or hyperactivity.” This figure eight pattern that the body makes when doing this exercise; is a benefit to transform the emotional stress and help learning difficulties.
Personally, I have consistently used these exercises after attending one of the original seminars in the early 80’s. I have had amazing breakthroughs myself and so have my daughters along with many others that I have helped in my clinical private practice. Thus, I urge you to do them and do them consistently each day. You can look at it adopting an attitude that it is like playing. So have some fun with these two life changing exercises.
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