National Eating Disorder Awareness Week Welcome to National Eating Disorder Awareness week! This is an important week to help bring awareness to the millions of people who have or are struggling with eating disorders. I want to remind you that any person, no matter their weight/size can have an eating disorder. We need to have awareness around this […]
It’s that time of the year again! Time to clean out the garage, scrub the floors, and wash the cars. Spring is in the air! So what are your spring cleaning traditions? Maybe cleaning isn’t your thing. Maybe you work in your garden, pulling out the dead from last year and making room for the […]
Who Do You Trust? I just finished reading an article that was posted on the Denver Channel News (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/money/business-news/in-god-we-trust-but-not-each-other). The article describes how Americans have significantly decreased their trust in one another. Reportedly, after a recent survey, Americans believe that only about one-third of people can be trusted; a significant decrease from a similar survey […]
As a psychologist working with individuals who struggle in their relationship with food; it feels frustrating when I hear others (especially other mental health providers!) saying that eating disorders happen to people because they are “controlling”. Yes, I do think that many people who have an eating disorder often feel that many things in their […]
Trusted Therapy, Inc Tonya McFarland, PsyD Licensed Clinical Psychologist 1030 Johnson Rd, Suite # 280 Golden, CO 80401 303-709-5897 trustedtherapy.com tonya@trustedtherapy.com Why Do I Always Crave the Same Food? Trusted Therapy, Inc Tonya McFarland, PsyD. For me it’s ice cream. I can eat ice cream in the dead of winter or for breakfast. So why […]
Trusted Therapy, Inc Tonya McFarland, PsyD Licensed Clinical Psychologist 1030 Johnson Rd, Suite # 280 Golden, CO 80401 303-709-5897 trustedtherapy.com tonya@trustedtherapy.com When Our Healers Hurt After the recent mass casualty incidents in the United States during the past several years, I wonder how these experiences have impacted our healthcare professionals. This topic has become of […]
If you’ve ever worked with me or spent more than five minutes with me, you likely know the importance I place on my dogs. Having grown up with multiple four legged pets throughout my childhood, I understand the benefits of sharing my life with these furry companions. As a child I didn’t know the research […]
So it has been a month since you set your most recent New Year’s Resolution. What was it for? Was it the same as your goal from last year? What about the year before? So many times we set goals that are the same or very similar year after year. Why do we do this? […]
I have so many clients who come to me after multiple failed attempts at “dieting”. They feel frustrated and hopeless that they can ever lose weight and most importantly, be able to keep it off. I frequently hear, “I have lost the same 20 lbs 4 times!” and other similar statements. Does this sound familiar […]
Well it’s that time of year again. If you have recently taken a road trip or maybe you have even encountered this annoyance on your way to work. The slower speeds, the orange cones redirecting traffic, the re-routed detours, and the seemingly never-ending line of cars attempting to squeeze into one lane. The summer time […]