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Beyond The Silence & The Fury-Action Methods with Eating Disorders

Contact us to schedule this event with a link to my email address. For Eating Disorder clients, the struggles with food, weight, and appearance reflect the inability to voice feelings and emotional pain. The body becomes the battleground for this war of self expression. Clients become silent and “stuck” in self destructive patterns in an […]

Action Methods Consultation Group

Overview:  This consultation group will explore members’ questions and concerns about applying action methods in their settings of choice. We expect to address issues such as: Ways to introduce and explain the rationale for using action methods in individual and group settings.

How to Incorporate Exercise into a Busy Lifestyle

1. Avoid “all or nothing” thinking. Keep the American College of Sports Medicine Guidelines* as a goal, but remember, every little bit helps. A 5 minute walk is better than 5 minutes of sitting. Little by little we go far. 2. Don’t think of exercise as “one more thing to do”, rather, think of being […]

If You Have Been Neglecting Your Exercise Needs:

1. Practice positive self-talk: “I am worthy of healthy behavior. I deserve to take time to exercise.” 2. Avoid “all or nothing” thinking. For example, don’t say, “I only have 10 minutes for exercise – why bother?” Every 10 minutes helps to build a regular routine and relieve stress.

Societal Standard of Beauty and Eating Disorders

By Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP co-author with Karen Carnabucci of “Healing Eating Disorders With Psychodrama and Other Action Methods – Beyond the Silence and the Fury” “Anorexia is both the result of a protest against the cultural rule that your women must be beautiful.  In the beginning, a young woman strives to be thin and […]

LEARN TO LOVE YOUR BODY THRU YOGA CULTIVATE PERSONAL PEACE ONE BREATH, ONE ASANA AT A TIME

Contact us to schedule this event with a link to my email address. In our book on healing eating disorders we emphasize the benefits of a holistic approach to the treatment of issues such as disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, related mood disorders and more.  Action methods which involve the body as well as the mind, […]

The “Triple Double”

The Triple Double is a phrase I coined when discovering from experience in the director’s role that by “Bookending” the protagonist with the Body Double and the Containing Double and using the Classical Double between them, the protagonist can accurately label feelings while remaining in the “Window of Tolerance”. The Body Double grounds the protagonist […]