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Maybe you should talk to someone, ELSE?
Venture capital has made the therapeutic landscape incredibly confusing.
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
The case for talking about weight in celebrity culture.
Can we stop colluding with Hollywood’s collective eating disorder?
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
28:35
Navigating holiday stress and reframing emotional eating.
A recording from Vanessa Scaringi and Jenny Eden Berk's live video
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD and Jenny Eden Berk, MSEd
32:51
Purity culture’s impact on women with Anna Rollins
A recording from Vanessa Scaringi, PhD's live video
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD and Anna Rollins
Are Women Finding Protection in Traditional Gender Roles?
How the Erika Kirk brand of CEO is preying on young women’s fear
Published on Raising Her Voice • 
Allowing for the “artificial.”
Why my kids will always have access to all the things…
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
A love letter to therapist moms…
When caregiving is your full-time job.
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
The insanely sophisticated defense mechanism of optimization
Denying the intensity and darkness of our world in favor of burying ourselves in goal setting and perfection seeking is understandably tempting—and even…
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
Bridging Disciplines
What a yoga teacher and an eating disorder therapist have in common.
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD and Naomi Gottlieb-Miller
Parenting for an unfamiliar future.
How massive shifts in technology and a changing college landscape are reorienting my families' values and future plans.
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
The only children are *mostly* alright!
Time to confront the unique nuances of only children.
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
Purity Based Wellness Culture
MAHA's shame inducing quest for "health" has 90's purity culture vibes.
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
Can we care too much about health?
Understanding Orthorexia
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
Diminishing Rights are Making Women Disappear.
Recent rises in some drastic measures to get smaller warrants more understanding of what else might be going on for women these days.
 • Vanessa Scaringi, PhD
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A Side of Freud
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