Melissa Golub, LCSWR

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I recently taught a new course for PESI on ‘Emotional Eating’ and the first segment was all about deconstructing the term emotional eating. Why? Because eating in response to how we feel is actually a normative and inherently natural thing for humans to do. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​It’s something we were born doing! Diet culture came in to rob the connection between emotions and food. Your clients have been taught to fear emotions and food. It’s time to get real with this, first for yourself, then for your clients!

**My Social Media is for educational purposes and should not be considered therapy or medical advice**

Befriending Your Body Program: 8-week virtual program teaching you the skills of Somatic Self-Compassion and Interoceptive Awareness for making peace with your body, food and self.

Befriending Your Body Professional Certification: For eating disorder professionals wishing to learn trauma-informed essential somatic and self-compassion skills to help your clients reach a new level of recovery and healing with their body, food and self.

Are you ready to have a new relationship with your body and food? Are you ready to ? This program gives you the tools.

My next Befriending Your Body Program, begins March 22nd and REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
There are currently only 4 spots left so please hop on my website and register asap if interested.

The Befriending Your Body (BFYB) Program is the first somatic self-compassion program for making peace with your Body, Food and Self.

I have guided 100’s of folks through this powerful program of internal connection. Based on the evidenced-based practices of Interoceptive Awareness, Self-Compassion and Mindfulness and framed through the Polyvagal Theory.

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

View all the program details on my website.
Link in bio.

**My Social Media is for educational purposes and should not be considered therapy or medical advice**

Befriending Your Body Program: 8-week virtual program teaching you the skills of Somatic Self-Compassion and Interoceptive Awareness for making peace with your body, food and self.

Befriending Your Body Professional Certification: For eating disorder professionals wishing to learn trauma-informed essential somatic and self-compassion skills to help your clients reach a new level of recovery and healing with their body, food and self.

The word “control” gets lost in ED treatment.
It’s way too simple to say those struggling with an eating disorder are trying to be in control or gain control. That’s a simplified cognitive statement that goes nowhere to truly and deeply understand what someone is really experiencing INSIDE!

Yes, it’s about control. But it’s about the attempt to control the following:
The wish to feel different inside. To feel more stable, secure and safe. It’s about wishing that everything swirling around in your brain would slow down and that you could clearly choose life and food freely again. It’s wishing for your internal system to feel calm, grounded and in control once again. Control is not a conscious choice in recovery!

**My Social Media is for educational purposes and should not be considered therapy or medical advice**

Befriending Your Body Program: 8-week virtual program teaching you the skills of Somatic Self-Compassion and Interoceptive Awareness for making peace with your body, food and self.

Befriending Your Body Professional Certification: For eating disorder professionals wishing to learn trauma-informed essential somatic and self-compassion skills to help your clients reach a new level of recovery and healing with their body, food and self.

This was one of the many deep insights I had during my experience in the Befriending Your Body Program - when we restrict our food intake (aka starve our brains and bodies) or restrict after a binge eating episode it literally impacts functioning in the brain, including the area of the brain responsible for perception of BODY IMAGE! This is powerful work. Check out my website to learn more. www.melissagolub.com

Please note, when patterns of eating are irregular, disrupted, inconsistent, or harming in any way, your brain responds to the signals it receives from your entire sensory and autonomic nervous system. This is why these behaviors become a vicious cycle. Behavior comes in because there has been internal disruption and then it continues because of the further disruption in signals it creates.

This is why it is crucial to develop Interoceptive Awareness in recovery.

Learn more in my next Befriending Your Body Program beginning Wednesday Jan. 4th 3-5pm EDT Email me to pre register.

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Wonderful local group for postpartum support.

The Maternal Mental Health Support Group meets tomorrow evening, August 18, at 7 PM in Saratoga Hospital's First Floor Classroom. Please call 518-580-2871 to register. More than 70% of women experience the "baby blues" after childbirth, but when these symptoms persist and combine with feelings of anxiety and despair, they could be warning signs of postpartum depression or anxiety. Alothough it is a frightening time, counseling and treatment are available. You are not alone. #saratogahospital #saratogasprings #hospital #healthcare #community #supportgroup #mentalhealth #peopleyoutrust

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SO thankful to Jocelyn at Farrell Branding & Web Design for her amazing creativity and ability to bring my vision into reality! 🙏😍

Melissa Golub Melissa Golub is a Licensed Psychotherapist and Befriending Your Body (BFYB) Certified Teacher based in Saratoga Springs, NY. With a focus on mindfulness and compassion, she offers adults tools for embodiment and empowerment.

I am so excited to share Dr. Ann’s powerful work this summer! Join me for the 8 week BFYB program, starting 7/19/22 (Tuesdays 4-6pm) to transform your relationship with your body and food, from the inside out. Email me at [email protected] to preregister.

Why? Because once they learn who they are from inside their body and know how to sense and register that they will never need anything or anyone from the outside telling them what they need ever again!!!

Learn more in my Befriending Your Body (BFYB) Training for Professionals! The next program begins in August.
Please email me to pre-register as the program fills quickly.

View all the program details on my website.
Link in bio.

“Remember to trust the simple everyday wisdom of your body. It’s a barometer for your soul.”
-Melody Beattie
Journey to the Heart

I encourage every woman I know to take this course 🙏🏽❤️
(Planning to run my first group this summer ☀️ )

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The more self-compassionate you become, the less shame you have about your body and yourself. The less shame you have about your body and yourself, the more you can trust your body and yourself. The more you trust your body and yourself, the less you NEED anything from diet culture.

It all starts with self-compassion!

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So thankful to be one of those six 👇🏽 What a powerful program! 🙏🏽❤️

Look out for six new Certified Befriending Your Body Teachers! I spent the last two weekends training clinicians and nutritionists/dieticians in training this unique 8-week program of somatic and self-compassion skills for nervous system and emotion regulation for healing your relationship with your body, food and self.

If you are a professional working with those with any form of disordered eating, or body image issues and are interested in becoming certified in this 8-week evidenced-based program please check out info. on my website.

Look at that beautiful new email signature 🥰 Thank you for such a deep and powerful training, Ann Saffi-Biasetti (link in comments)! I am so excited to bring Ann’s life changing work into the world! 🙏🏽❤️

If you live with or are impacted by mental illness, you are part of the many. You are not alone. 🙏🏽♥️

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When one of you is coming home, it’s a great idea to physically greet each other. Ideally, the partner who is home comes to greet the partner coming in.

Once they come in, after they've taken their mask off and washed their hands, I want you two to embrace each other and hold. Be mindful of each other’s body. If you are noticing specifically where on their body your partner is holding tension, just gently touch that area as a reminder for your partner to relax in that area. Your partner will do the same for you.

This only takes a minute or so. Once you’re both relaxed sufficiently, you can go about business. Think of this as a ritual that acts as a sort of reset. No matter what kind of day they had or what mental state they may have been in before walking into that door, this shows them that they are now home.

“ Mental health is a human right — and everyone deserves access to the care they need to reach their full potential.“
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You are not alone ❤️

It's ***dePreventionAwarenessMonth. Remember you are not alone and there are resources to help. The National Su***de Prevention Lifeline () offers free, confidential crisis counseling 24/7/365 - and you don’t have to be in crisis to call.

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So often we are searching and striving for "what else" we can do and add in for self-care and we are missing all the little things that we are already doing! Stay focused on what you already DO that helps and rest and stay with that for a while.

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