All tagged Kelly Simonson

How does starting a family impact you as a couple?

“What I have found in working with couples in therapy and in my personal life is that whatever problems you have before you have kids, you will keep having those problems but they will feel bigger… it’s only natural that those fights will increase as you have greater demands on your time, money, and resources”. Kelly Simonson, Ph. D addresses how starting a family can affect your relationship and important steps to consider when family planning.

What We Can Learn from the "Minnesota Starvation Experiment"

This article enlightens readers on the “Minnesota Starvation Experiment”, a study that has frequently been cited in psychological and nutritional realms to point to the harmful effects of dieting and “semi-starvation”. Participants were conscientious objectors of the war who were “willing to subject themselves to a year-long invasion of privacy, nutritional deprivation, and physical and mental hardship”. The researchers created this study to look at the impact of famine on survivors of the second world war but also learned a lot about how diets impact people psychologically, mentally, emotionally, and relationally. Diets are dangerous, destructive, and not effective. If you need help getting off the diet merry-go-round and finding a way to make peace with your body and food, contact us today.