New listserve--for professionals with their own eating issues

[THECOUCH at aol.com]

Hello Colleagues,
 
I wanted to let you know about a new listserve I am creating that other 
colleagues may be interested in.  This is an additional listserve that will 
run separately from Neuroendolist.  It will NOT replace Neuroendolist.
 
Over the years of writing about eating disorders, I have received e-mails 
from colleagues asking for help with their own eating issues.  It's always an 
embarrassing issue for the person asking for help, because there is an 
assumption that having a degree in nutrition or counseling means one 
shouldn't be "weak" enough to have problems with food.  That is absolutely 
not true!  
 
Unfortunately, the fear of losing credibility precludes many of our 
colleagues from asking for help, or talking about their struggles, which 
keeps them trapped in a life that provides them with less than they deserve.
 
I have decided to start a listserve designed to be a place for these 
professionals to connect and support each other in an anonymous fashion.
 
Colleagues who are interested in such a listserve can do the following:
 
1.    Decide which e-mail address they would like to use as their username.  
If they feel their primary e-mail account would identify them, then they need 
to create a secondary AOL account or a free account with a service provider 
such as hotmail.com, yahoo.com, or juno.com that maintains their anonymity.
 
2.    Write me, without signing their name (to keep it anonymous from me as 
well), asking to join this listserve.  The e-mail address from which they 
contact asking to be added to the list is the one that will identify them on 
the listserve.  
 
3.    This is absolutely NOT a counseling or supervision service provided by 
me.  This service should not even be considered as a substitute for 
professional counseling or supervision.  It is a safe place to support each 
other in a positive, constructive fashion.  I am only facilitating the 
process and the server space for the conversation, my personal contributions 
will be minimal and administrative in nature.
 
4.  My contact address for expressing interest is <A HREF="mailto:monika at afterthediet.com">monika at afterthediet.com</A>.
 
Please share this information in venues where you think there may be 
interested parties.
 
Regards,
 
Monika M. Woolsey, MS, RD
<A HREF="http://www.afterthediet.com/">http://www.afterthediet.com</A>


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