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Words are the calories I consume at night. Gobbling up vowels And swallowing consonants; All the things I cannot say Sit on my hips And remind me of the words I ate Yesterday. I remember the day I recognized that I had an emotional eating problem. I had gone back to the kitchen for a second helping of sticky sweet dessert. I knew I wasn’t particularly hungry; in fact, I was quite full. I had…

Lesions inside the mouth caused by biting your cheeks can be extremely painful! Compulsively biting at your cheeks; also known as morsicatio buccarum, is classified as a body-focused repetitive disorder (BFRD) and falls into the same category as nail biting, hair pulling, and skin picking. The most common times for people to bite their cheeks is during moments of stress or anxiety, but this behavior can also be a residual pattern from a difficult time…

Creepers and crawlers! Ghosts and ghouls! It’s that time of year when many come to face their fears. Today is Friday the 13th, and with Halloween right around the corner, many of you may be preparing to lock the doors and pull the covers up and over your heads to hide from a fear that’s been haunting you for years. Feeling frightened or anxious about something is tortuous; your heart races, your throat closes up,…

The boss has you under a deadline, and you’re Googling ‘how to stop procrastinating at work’ instead of getting your work done. If this is you, then you are probably procrastinating in other areas of your life as well. Abraham Lincon once said,”we cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today” If this is true, then why do we continue to delay? Putting off the task or problem only serves to compound the…