By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS I’m going to bitch and moan for second because I need to vent. The world is crumbling and I’m losing it. Isolation sucks. I feel isolated every day thanks to COVID-19. While I’m grateful to have my wife and son with me for human connection, I have not seen […]

By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS   Weight bias comes in many forms. I’ve experienced it personally in the form of poor medical care, poor mental health care, bullying, teasing, ostracization, and personal rejection. I have been fat off and on since elementary school. Fat to me was a four-letter word that led to a […]

By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS   Most of us are taught that attraction is a physical asset – either you are or you’re not. As a result, we’ve been brainwashed to believe great effort must be spent to alter our bodies through adornments, clothing, makeup, weight loss, weight gain, muscle development, prosthetics, implants, fillers, […]

By Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS   In recent months, I’ve been interview for newspaper articles and blogs about the rise in interest in intermittent fasting in males. Intermittent fasting (IF) is the practice of refusing to eat for significant chunks of time to “bio-hack” one’s metabolism to gain “mental clarity” and energy. Essentially, men […]