8 Ways to Manage Disordered Eating During the Festive Season
This past week, I posted a series on Instagram on coping with disordered eating during the Festive Season, and I thought it would be...
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Dr. Jenna Daku
- May 1, 2019
- 3 min
Re: Clothes that no longer fit
Spring is in the air, and so is body insecurity. The theme of changing bodies, and clothing sizes, has come up a lot in clinic lately and...
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Dr. Jenna Daku
- Dec 17, 2018
- 3 min
You have permission to struggle this Festive Season
With Christmas just around the corner, there's an increasing amount of pressure to be cheerful, excited, and 'on it' at work or with...
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Dr. Jenna Daku
- Oct 31, 2018
- 4 min
This Halloween, let's leave the fear-mongering for the ghosts
Traditionally known as All Hallows’ Evening, Halloween was a Samhain festival to celebrate the end of the harvest season aka the end of...
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Dr. Jenna Daku
- Oct 24, 2018
- 5 min
How to respond to client disclosures of trauma when you’re not a therapist
If you are a health care professional working with eating disorders, it’s crucial to ensure that you are trauma-informed. That’s a...
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Dr. Jenna Daku
- Sep 28, 2018
- 5 min
How to Recognise Camouflaged Diet-chat...and what to do about it
Before I begin, a desire to lose weight is not inherently bad. The problem with focusing on weight loss is that we have moralised it to...
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Dr. Jenna Daku
- Aug 9, 2018
- 2 min
Cultivating self-compassion is effing hard, and that's OK.
I teach my clients about self-compassion every day. I point them toward Kristin Neff and Brene Brown for evidence and inspiration. I...
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Dr Jenna Daku
- Jul 24, 2018
- 3 min
Self-loathing is not self-caring
It’s commonly believed that we need to be hard on ourselves in order to achieve our goals. We think that criticising or telling ourselves...
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Dr Jenna Daku
- Mar 12, 2018
- 5 min
Eating Disorder signs & how to help
You can’t always tell by looking at somebody if they have an eating disorder, so be sure to check that misconception at the door. In...
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Dr. Jenna Daku
- Feb 19, 2018
- 3 min
Why the anti-diet approach matters for ED recovery
I’ve noticed a recent trend in the clients that I’ve been working with. Many of them have had serious, clinical eating disorders in the...
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