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What are you doing to stay afloat in strong emotional currents?
As I was spending time down at the river, it made me think of one of my favorite metaphors. Imagine, imagine you’re on the banks of a raging river. It’s pouring down rain, and you slip and you fall in, and you’re drowning. You are getting pulled down through the...
Are you blocking things you shouldn’t?
Are you blocking things you shouldn’t? Its springtime and it’s snowing – here in Denver, Colorado. When I first saw the snow, I thought, oh no, it’s going to knock all the beautiful blossoms off the apple tree! -- and it very well might. But I started thinking…. How...
Lopsided Lobsters
In Hawaii, the eel lives in a hole in the reef in the ocean. The lobster often makes its home at the mouth of this hole. This is a great arrangement for the eel - since it has a lobster at its doorstep with an antenna pointed outward, watching for predators. It’s a...
The Log Video
Dr. Anita Johnston uses the metaphor of a log in a river from her book Eating in the Light of the Moon to describe the recovery process from disordered eating.