Self-Image & Eating Related Concerns
Pastoral Counseling at Q's Ministry


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The will to survive!
Links

National Institute of Mental Health

Books

http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Thinness-Satisfying-Spiritual-Obsession/dp/093607
7557
Motion Picture Workers / Actors / Actresses
Addressing the following issues,
Criticism
Self Image
Role Image
Role change / Role Adjustment, Re-Adjustment
Adapting
Addictions
Relationships
Blog

http://food-abstinence.blogspot.com/

Food Abstinence
This blog is to introduce you to numerous methods and ways to abstain from compulsive eating. The methods may include commonly
known techniques to control over- eating and links to favorite recipes, see for example http://food.blogtoolkit.com and
www.qministry.com for self-image work, evaluations, career counseling, marital counseling, dating and marriage.

Self-control, Food Seeking and Eating
This blog is about learning to control compulsions. Generally, compulsions have both brain and behavioral (environmental) factors
regulating its intensity. Food compulsion in particular can be deeply rooted in the manner of maternal weaning and attachment. That
sets a pattern in the way the brain regulates hunger drive and food seeking behavior. The early experiences and tendencies can set a
tone of relating and interacting with objects or stimuli associated with food. If emotional conflicts arise, which may not be related to
food, there will be conflicting response patterns. And if food is near the tendency can be to engage in compulsive food seeking
behavior. The energy arising from stress, mood and anxiety can find expression in food seeking and eating. The types of foods that are
sought can be a directly correlated to a particular mood that up-regulate or down regulate that mood. And the compulsion is like a trap,
one seeks foods that make the person feel good when they feel bad and the good feeling reinforces the seeking of that food.
Self-control is when the person is able to be aware of the trap-vicious cycle, delay gratification, be able to "mentalize", identify
conflicting emotions within oneself (internal stimuli), identify conflicting response patterns, and identify environmental stimuli
associated with food. Professional help may be needed to connect with god, to reduce troublesome feelings and to relearn response
patterns. Help is available here at BHITS / Q's Ministry if false body image is associated with food - substance seeking, food -
substance consuming, anorexia, self starving, bulimia, binge eating or purging.
RESEARCH & SPECIAL REFERENCES: STUDENTS, TRAINEES, CLIENTS, PARISHIONERS WITH DISCUSSION WITH OUR COUNSELORS

Eating Disorders Among Latino Freshmen College Students
Boyd Image, Aging Anxiety and Cosmetic Surgery in Middle Aged Woman
Darwin's
Brain & body image

Genetics of Eating Disorders ( http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/2085488/new_study_sheds_light_on_role_of_genetics_in_recovering/ )

Websites promoting eating disorders
I can demonstrate how to prepare food.
(Los Angeles County Regional Food Preparation Certificate)
By age 30 months, children are self aware and have topographical representation about their own size, structure and shape. Whereas awareness about body's
topography was not related to its awareness to its size, awareness of where body parts are related to awareness of body's shape in space. Celia A. Brownell,
Sara R. Nichols, and Margarita Svetlova, Stephanie Zerwas and Geetha Ramani (2010, May 13). The Head Bone's Connected to the Neck Bone: When Do
Toddlers Represent Their Own Body Topography? Child Development, 81(3), 797-810.

Early in pregnancy low sexuality is related to impaired body image; and after child birth, elimination symptoms are related to poor sexuality past 6
months after child birth; see Pauls RN, Occhino JA, and Dryfhout VL. Effects of pregnancy on female sexual function and body image: A prospective
study. J Sex Med 2008;5:1915–1922.