Margaret Sala
Setting Goals in Therapy
One of the first things that I work on with clients is setting very specific goals in therapy. This is important because we need a...
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Margaret Sala
- Jul 17
- 2 min
Challenging Eating Disorder Thoughts
When you have an eating disorder, it is common to have various disordered eating thoughts outside of your awareness. It can be helpful to...
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Margaret Sala
- Jul 14
- 2 min
Regular Eating and Eating Disorder Recovery
Regular eating is the foundation upon which eating disorder recovery happens. Often, when you are going through an eating disorder,...
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Margaret Sala
- Jun 13
- 3 min
Emotional Eating
People with eating disorders often worry that they cope with their emotions by using food.
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Margaret Sala
- May 16
- 2 min
How Can Couples Therapy Help Couples?
Couples counseling can gives couples important skills to face the many challenges of marriage and parenting.
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Margaret Sala
- Apr 18
- 2 min
Gottman Method Couples Counseling
Couples counseling is an exciting and evolving form of therapy. New approaches, techniques, and technologies have emerged that help couples
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Margaret Sala
- Mar 19
- 3 min
Talking to kids about happiness: Part 1
This is the first of a series on how to talk with your kids about important issues related to mental health. This first one is about...
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Margaret Sala
- Mar 15
- 2 min
When you feel depressed
One of the most common things that people come to me for is help with depression. Depression often occurs when one loses access to...
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Margaret Sala
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Why shoving things under the rug doesn't work
Early in my training, I had to take several cognitive psychology lessons. One of the most classical cognitive psychology phenomena I...
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Margaret Sala
- Feb 21
- 2 min
On making decisions
One thing I have been talking a lot with patients recently is how do we make decisions. In complete transparency, I am often cautious...
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Margaret Sala
- Feb 10
- 1 min
OK, and then what?
In my last post, I wrote about reframing and defusing from thoughts. Sometimes, that strategy is not enough. We do our best to reframe or...
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Margaret Sala
- Feb 3
- 2 min
Easy thinking
One of the things I work on a lot with clients in my therapy practice is learning to hold their thoughts more lightly. We often can fuse...
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Margaret Sala
- Nov 11, 2022
- 1 min
Finding Joy in Hard Times
People often come to me when they are going through some of the toughest times in their life. Losing a loved one. A job loss. Divorce....
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Margaret Sala
- Oct 14, 2022
- 1 min
On self-compassion
Self-compassion has become popular in psychology over the last few years, and I wanted to spend some-time talking about it today. Why...
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Margaret Sala
- Sep 9, 2022
- 2 min
Intuitive Eating 101
What is intuitive eating? Intuitive eating has become popular over the years. Intuitive eating is a practice that encourages you to tap...
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Margaret Sala
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
On gaining weight in eating disorder recovery
Sometimes, recovery from an eating disorder means gaining weight. This can be hard for anyone, but especially for someone with an eating...
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Margaret Sala
- Jul 13, 2022
- 2 min
DBT Interpersonal Skills - DEAR MAN
An effective type of interpersonal skills are the DEAR MAN skills, which are taught in DBT. DEAR MAN are effective for all types of...
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Margaret Sala
- Jul 6, 2022
- 2 min
8 Tips For Better Sleep
One of my specialty areas is insomnia treatment. Below, I include 8 tips for better sleep. Practice mindfulness meditation. Practicing...
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Margaret Sala
- Jun 29, 2022
- 1 min
Managing your attention
Do you ever feel like your mind is all over the place? That you can't focus on what is important to you? We all have a limited amount of...
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Margaret Sala
- Jun 23, 2022
- 2 min
What body image work looks like
There is the misconception that eating disorder therapy can help you have a great body image - to love your body every day, the way that...
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