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Work in Progress

December 30, 2021 Susan 2 Comments

WORK IN PROGRESS Work in Progress is a newly released anthology of unpublished excerpts from works in progress by over…

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Posted in: Aging, FItness, Memoir, Mental Health, The Pulpwood Queens, Writing Filed under: aerobic dancing, aerobics, Bill Johnson's Phidippides Sports, body image distortion, eating disorders, exercise addiction, fitness, leg warmers, spandex

The End of the Affair (?)

November 15, 2018 Susan 4 Comments

I thought that when I quit drinking in September of 2017, that it was the hardest thing I’d ever done.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alaska, Anne Lamott, eating disorders, essays, fasting, Hershey's milk chocolate, Hersheys Kisses, Louisiana, Louisiana Book Festival, Nativity Fast, Navigating Disaster, Orthodox Church, poetry, Sheryl St. Germain, St. Nikolai Velimirovich

It’s About TIME (with Doc Oz)

September 15, 2018 Susan

I’ve recently done a couple of posts about eating and eating disorders. If you haven’t read them, here they are:…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Doc Oz, eating disorders, intermittent fasting, Parade Magazine, weight loss

Intuitive Eating

September 7, 2018 Susan 4 Comments

On Tuesday I did a post about “Disordered Eating.” This is a follow up, so if you’re bored with this…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: anorexia, binge eating, body image, bullimia, compulsive eating, dieting, eating disorders, Elyse Resch, emotional eating, Evelyn Tribole, Intuitive Eating, nutrition, obesity, sexual abuse, Twiggy, weight loss

Disordered Eating Revisited

September 4, 2018 Susan 4 Comments

According to an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry (2009): Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: binge eating, Bulimia, dieting, eating disorders, exercise, mental health, mental health first aid, mental illness, weight loss

Birthday Musings: People Can Change #sixmonthswithoutadrink

March 8, 2018 Susan 13 Comments

I am 67 years old today. Damn, that sounds old! But it also sounds wonderful because, as E.E. Cummings said,…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: aging, alcohol, Annie Grace, birthdays, Blocked, Can People Change?, deperssion, Dr. Jamie Moran, eating disorders, Lliving Orthodoxy in the Modern World, six months without a drink, sobriety, Time and Despondency

Pre-Lenten Encouragement

February 5, 2018 Susan 6 Comments

It’s been a couple of weeks since I blogged about my current (and life-long) struggle with disordered eating. (If you…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: confession, disordered eating, eating disorders, Great Lent, Lenten Triodion, Living Prayer, Meditations on a Theme, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, Nicole Roccas, Orthodoxy, Time and Despondency

Courage… and Hunger

January 18, 2018 Susan

In my first post of 2018, “Don’t Look Back,” I shared two more wonderful quotes from the Bright Ideas quotes…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Alice Walker, Ann Patchett, binging, disordered eating, Eat Drink Repeat, eating disorders, hunger, Roxane Gay, The Shoe Burnin' Anthology: Stories of Southern Soul

Fitness Friday: Is Your Body Kicking Your Soul’s Ass?

August 15, 2014 Susan 8 Comments

If you’re here for my usual “Faith on Friday” post, please come back next Friday. Or, because today is the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: aerobics, body image distortion, Dormition of the Mother of God, eating disorders, exercise, Father Stephen Freeman, fitness, inbalance fitness, Orthodox Faith

Mental Health Monday: Changing the Self-Talk

March 10, 2014 Susan

Yesterday morning a friend texted me to let me know that Brené Brown was on Super Soul Sunday on the…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: binging and purging, Brené Brown, Daring Greatly, eating disorders, Oprah, self-talk, shame, shame resilience, Super Soul Sunday, The Gifts of Imperfection

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