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From Our Founding Editor This issue focuses on a topic near and dear to me: eating psychology—a movement that shines a spotlight on the dynamic psychological relationship we have with food and its impact on our health and emotional wellbeing. Advances in holistic and functional nutritional health are changing the way we understand the role our diet plays in obtaining and/or maintaining optimal health. During our interview with Dr. Helayne Waldman ED.D., she noted that it is time to expand the term eating disorder: “If you are sabotaging your health, if you disregard your own well-being in any kind of clinical field, this is considered disordered thinking/behaving. When you eat sugar, drink that coke, or engage in a variety of other eating habits that undermine your health, I believe that too is an eating disorder. I think the ‘eating disorder’ needs to be broadened to honor our own well-being through healthy habits with food, it’s an eating disorder. I think the term should be broadened to honor our own well-being through healthy habits with food.” Everyone has a relationship with food, and as Stephanie Pollock writes in her article, A Voyage into the Gut, “There is no such thing as emotional eating because we are emotional beings, and we eat, thus all eating will always be an emotional experience.” Our contributors share their personal and professional stories to highlight the connection between eating psychology and digestion, mood and depression, immunity and food allergies, cancer, fatigue, osteoporosis, overeating, binge eating, not eating, and purging. They discuss how our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs influence our nutritional metabolism and health, our emotional metabolism and health, and our spiritual metabolism and health. And, they share healing modalities that may offer relief and resolution. All are practicing practitioners (therapists, coaches, educators) with successful experiences supporting clients who are willing to approach their own dynamic relationship with food and face the negative consequences and experiences in order to ‘turn-the-tables’ and engage in healthier ways of eating and being. Join us as we explore the connection between the brain and the gut brain and the impact of their alliance on our digestion and behavior. We welcome your response. Warmly, Nancy Eichhorn, PhD writetobe@myfairpoint.net From Our Cover Designer I grew up in a city that claimed to have the most restaurants per capita in the entire US. The variety of atmospheres and foods was mindboggling. Going out to eat had many layers of meaning for status and socially. As with many people food holds a lot of emotional and social meaning. How, when, and why it is eaten. It is interesting to see the connection between food and all the different meaning we place around it and how it can be helpful and nourishing or harmful and challenging. Sincerely, Diana Houghton Whiting, M.A., BED Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 6
From the USABP President Dear Somatic Psychotherapy Readers, I love to eat, but I have a hard time feeding myself. I feel full, yet sometimes I am unsatisfied. I am voracious, while also quenched and picky. What am I talking about here? It’s all about the psychology that pulls the topic of eating and food into a depth and meaning way beyond the ground of survival and food. There’s probably no human activity that calls on so many brain regions as food does (maybe sex?). It’s a perfect topic to be addressed by our field, Somatic Psychology—the psychology of the body. By looking closely at Eating Psychology, our unique perspective may shed light on what is really eating us up these days. Bon Appetit! Beth L. Haessig, Psy.D. President, United States Association for Body Psychotherapy APA ACTION COMMITTEE The USABP is forming a committee whose purpose will be to create a Somatic Psychology division of APA. The goals are: to determine the necessary steps involved in creating a division of APA and to take those steps in order to make a strong application to APA. If you are interested in being part of this important work, please be a member of this committee! Contact the President of USABP, Beth Haessig, Psy.D. at President@usabp.org Somatic Psychotherapy Today | Fall 2014 | Volume 4 Number 2 | page 7
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