Michelle F. Moseley Counseling, PLLC
Many holidays have some type of religious meaning or undertone. Celebrating can be difficult when there are religious differences between yourself and the friends and/or family you gather with. Navigating religious differences can be difficult any time you combine extended time together and events that focus on religious beliefs. This can be especially true for […]
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Many folks in the US are preparing to gather for Thanksgiving next week. That late-November celebration is often the beginning of multiple holiday-related celebrations that include food, family, and diet culture. What is Diet Culture? Diet culture is all around us, and it encompasses a multitude of messages. Here are a few aspects of diet
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Have you ever heard of a “Judgement House” or a “Hell House”? These are a way that many evangelical churches in the Southern US have chosen to deal with Halloween. They were especially popular in the 90s and early 2000s, but I still see marketing for them at area churches today. In fact, I just
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Religious Trauma and Body Image Concerns are often intertwined. Diet culture. Purity culture. Body as a temple. Bodily desires as sinful. I address the common roots and issues that can arise from both religious trauma and from body image concerns throughout this site. I recently got the chance to chat with Aubrey Baptista of Kindred
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We are just beginning Weight Stigma Awareness Week here in the United States, which runs from September 25th-29th for 2023. Weight Stigma Awareness Week has been around since 2011, and was previously promoted by NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association). NEDA is an organization which has been known both for making important information available to the
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“Treat Yo’Self” has become a popular phrase in recent years. It’s sometime used in the context of purchasing things that you may not need. It can occasionally be used to highlight a person’s right to do kind things for themselves. Honestly, “Treat Yo’Self” has gotten a bad rep in some circles. But what if the
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Shifts in your spiritual beliefs and practices can impact your relationship with your partner. This is especially true if you find that you and a partner no longer align in core beliefs. I have invited Josh Kellar, LMFT, LPC to share some of his expertise on how to handle these shifts in beliefs and the
Brainspotting is one of the one of the tools that I utilize in therapy to help clients heal. Brainspotting was discovered in 2003 by David Grand, PhD, LCSW, who often says, “Where you look affects how you feel” in reference to this intervention. Every person who has received official training in Brainspotting has also had
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I injured my shoulder back in 2017. I know exactly the moment it happened, and I’ve had pretty consistent pain in that shoulder ever since. I’ve recently found some relief from the pain through working with a new-to-me medical professional, and I found myself thinking about how we humans often stay in pain when a
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Fat folks in the U.S. are continually reminded of how others view our bodies. This is no less true when we seek medical care. The fear of mistreatment and being seen only as a fat person often mean that fat folks are hesitant to seek medical treatment at all. Leaving us to wonder – are
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