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Food Pushers

July 17, 2019 by Natasha Dedijer-Turner Leave a Comment

Food serves many purposes. Its primary function is biological-to provide nourishment and the basic nutrients to sustain our body and its many functions. Food by its very definition and use is nutrition-it is what we consume to sustain our bodies so we can live. Without food or adequate nutrition we cannot survive. But food has […]

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Is my family enmeshed?

May 12, 2019 by Natasha Dedijer-Turner Leave a Comment

Having a hard time seeing where you start and your friend/partner/family member end? During the 1970s, Salvador Minuchen introduced the concept of enmeshment and enmeshed families. Enmeshment is a term used to describe the blurring of personal boundaries. Whether it’s a relationship between family members, partners or spouses, limits simply don’t exist in enmeshed relationships, […]

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