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Join the Conversation Communication is an essential part of all relationships, and the Internet affords opportunities to network with like-minded colleagues and participate in forums that challenge your thinking and ways of doing. Join the conversation and voice your thoughts on Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, and more. Eating Disorders and the Internet The Hazards of Pro-Ana, Pro-Mia, and Pro-Ed websites Online support groups have proliferated with blogs, social networking, chat rooms, websites, Instagram, Pinterest, and more offering men and women dealing with an eating disorder help and information, links to resources and a support community. While many of these sites are beneficial, other sites, disguised as elite and exclusive communities, actually promote eating disordered behaviors. Pro-Ana aka Pro-Anorexia, Pro-Mia aka Pro-Bulimia and Pro Ed aka Pro-Eating Disorders are terms used to describe these online communities. Visitors are motivated to join their elite and exclusive group with the lure of compassion, support, connection. Yet, these sites are dangerous and promote eating disordered behaviors. Borzekowski, Schenk, Wilson, and Peebles (2010) studied 180 sites (search terms included phrases such as Pro-Ana and thin and support). Of these sites, 83% contained suggestions to engage in eating disordered behaviors while a minority provided true support and real data on recovery. These sites create unhealthy communities that glamorize and idolize images of emaciated and extremely thin people. They imply that food and weight are the enemy that must be avoided at all costs so the sites encourage and teach dangerous eating behaviors. Thinness is the ultimate goal and denial reigns when it comes to serious illnesses. Jett, LaPorte, and Wanchisn (2010), looked at the effects of exposure to these sites when healthy girls viewed them. They exposed healthy college women who had no history of an eating disorder to 1.5 hours of Pro-Eating Disorder sites. Data showed a decrease in caloric intake the week following the exposure; some study participants admitting they used techniques and tips they learned from the sites for up to three weeks after the exposure. Many noted having strong emotional reactions to the site content. Pro-Recovery The new movement is to promote Pro-Recovery Websites such as Something Fishy, which has addressed eating disorder recovery since 1995, and the National Eating Disorders organization. Both of these websites offer incredible information, resources, and connections for support: http://www.something-fishy.org/sfwed/prorecovery.php http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/recovery References: Borzekowski, D.L.G., Schenk, S., Wilson, J. L., & Peebles, R. (2010). e-Ana and e-Mia: A content analysis of pro-eating disorder web sites. American Journal of Public Health. 100: 1526-1534. Jett, S., LaPorte, D. J., & Wanchisn, J. (2010). Impact of exposure to pro-eating disorder websites on eating behaviour in college women. European Eating Disorders Review. Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 12
Movement-Based Embodied Contemplative Practices: Definitions and Paradigms By Laura Schmalzl, Mardi Crane-Godreau, and Peter Payne Published April 14, 2014 doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00205 Hot off the press, a new, open-access article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience mentions Somatic Experiencing (SE) and cites Peter Levine. While SE was not central to this particular paper, the hope is that the perspective will help to broaden the appreciation of its use. You are free to copy and distribute this article. As noted, this is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited, and that the original publication in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution, or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Links to the full text can be found at: http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00205/full http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00205 Abstract: “Over the past decades, cognitive neuroscience has witnessed a shift from predominantly disembodied and computational views of the mind, to more embodied and situated vie of the mind. These postulate that mental functions cannot be fully understood reference to the physical body and the environment in which they are experienced. the field of contemplative science, the directing of attention to bodily sensations has so far mainly been studied in the context of seated meditation and mindfulness practices. However, the cultivation of interoceptive, proprioceptive and kinesthetic awareness is also said to lie at the core of many movement-based contemplative practices such as Yoga, Qigong, and Chi. In addition, it likely plays a key role in the efficacy of modern therapeutic techniques such as the Feldenkrais Method and the Alexander Technique. In the current paper we examine how these practices are grounded in the concepts embodiment, movement and contemplation, as we look at them primarily through lens of an enactive to cognition. Throughout, we point to a series of challenges that arise when Western scientists study practices that are based on a non-dualistic vie of mind and body.” Would you like to discuss with colleagues around the world your thoughts, findings or questions? The Somatic Perspectives on Psychotherapy group on LinkedIn is your virtual community, already shared by over 2,500 kindred spirits: http://linkedin.somaticperspectives.com This group includes subscribers to SomaticPerspectives.com, members of the US Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP), members of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP), as well as people who are simply interested in joining our conversations. Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 13
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