Posts Tagged ‘counseling for eating issues’

A blogger whose name I will not mention, wrote that she would find it offensive to watch the sitcom actors, Molly and Mike who met at Overeaters Anonymous kissing on TV.

Her comments were offensive and when I read it, I thought, this woman has her own body issues. And sure enough, in her apology, she admitted that she was a former anorexic.

I tell my clients to practice looking at people without commenting on their bodies. We are spiritual beings.

Every one of us is going to pass on and not one of us will take our bodies with us. It is a trap to over identify with something  impermanent, and designed to age.

Have fun in your body? Yes. Enjoy it? Yes. Appreciate it?  Yes.  Take care of it?  Yes Yes.  Be a star athlete, sex goddess whatever,  just remember, you are having an experience in it.  It is not who you are.

I have heard clients say that they feel that thin people assume they are some how superior.

We are bombarded with before and after images of people who have made it. Whether they are starving, living on drinking shakes, or taking drugs is secondary. They are not fat.

On Tweet Deck, you can search a word, and when anyone  uses that word, it will come up in your feed. After following the word obese for a few months, there are two kinds of tweets. People make rude remarks about strangers they see in public places, and young girls talk about how much they ate, and how they are going to be obese. (That is a whole other subject for another article.)

Interestingly, when the blog with the offensive comments surfaced, this tweet stream totally changed. The author was called pricelessly insensitive, a body  Nazi, insane, and she should be fired immediately. Wow!

The tweets may go back to the former trend.

You, however, CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND!

Practice seeing people for who they really are.

You will find that they are kinder to you and you will feel more peaceful thoughts about yourself.

If you waste your precious thoughts on feeling bad about your body, please stop that!

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After rolling my eyes and playing dead over all of the twitter hoopla, I am now a mesmerized fan. Yes, I shifted my stubborn stance and changed my mind…….whew

Six months ago I said to Sandy Jones-Kaminski, the Miss Manners of networking and early Twitter fan, "I mentioned Twitter to my kids and they asked, What is that?"

Now my recent college graduate tweets every day….all day! As I write, I hear the tweet of her TweetDeck. I showed her the possibilities and then I had the delicious pleasure of hearing tell a friend, "My Mom knows more about Tweeting than I do."

That girl used to call me techno-babe and roll her eyes. OK. End of my mid-life bloviation.

What is so fascinating about Twitter? and TweetDeck? Well, TweetDeck is the mother lode of eavesdropping. Do you want to know what is the word on the street for iPhones? a book? a movie, traffic, the Tour de France, the MJ special you weren't watching. You can find out in real time. And it keeps at it while you are off doing other things.

Search anything: At&T, organic cherries, Wii Fit and find out what people are really saying.

Do you have any idea how many people put Wii Fit back in the box after it calls them obese?

You can easily make twitter a personalized news feed. Your own international and local associated press feed without interference. Whatever eclectic interest you have, that you want someone, anyone, to talk to about, you can find that someone on Twitter.

Facebook is a virtual neighborhood. You create a community and you put on your Mr. Rogers sweater and check in to see what your friends are doing. You are at your neighbor's kitchen table, or on the front porch in a small town and you learn a lot about what is going on, but your virtual neighborhood can span the globe.

Twitter has the potential to open your world a few more big notches. What will it become? Will it last? Who knows?

If the internet is the Wild West, then Twitter could be San Francisco.

You might want to check it out. I am off to check my Tweet Deck searches. I hope I find you there.