Have you made your New Year’s Resolutions yet? Are they to get fit? Eat healthier? Be happier with your body? If you’ve put “lose weight” on there, I want you to think carefully about that choice. A lot of teens will go into the New…
Some parents worry that they caused their child to develop an eating disorder. Current evidence does NOT support this view at all. Rather, eating disorders are complex mental illnesses with a multitude of contributing bio-psycho-social factors. For one, eating disorders are hereditary conditions that are…
If you have a teen (or tween) that you suspect may have an eating disorder, you likely have a lot of worries about them and just as many questions. Why won’t they just eat more? What will happen if they keep starving themselves like this?…
Have you tried breathing exercises with your child before? Or told your child to “take a deep breath” or “just breathe”? Do they tell you it doesn’t work? If you haven’t had much success teaching breathing exercises to your child, it is possible that they…
Hello Traverse City! I’m Dr. Rebecca Swenson and I am a child psychologist. I am so excited to have recently opened my private practice at the Grand Traverse Commons. In this first blog post, I want to tell you a little bit about myself…
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Traverse City, MI 49684
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