Heidi J. Dalzell, PsyD

12/03/2025

Thrilled to share my newest book, which will be published on 12/15! Hope it can help clinicians discern the differences between midlife eating disorders and those that occur at younger ages.

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12/01/2025

12/01/2025

Thanksgiving has just passed, but any time is a good time for gratitude. What are you grateful for? For me, it's family and friends.

Gratitude is more than a feel-good phrase—it’s a powerful practice that can shift how we experience our lives. By noticing small moments of comfort, beauty, or support, we train the mind to focus on what grounds and strengthens us. In this post, we explore how gratitude supports mental health, e...

12/01/2025

https://www.talktogrow.com/post/the-sacred-art-of-retreat-remembering-renewal-and-reconnection

There comes a moment when the soul begins to whisper — slow down, step back, listen. In that whisper lives the call to retreat.

11/28/2025

Struggling with food this holiday season? Here are some tips you may find helpful.

Holidays are about tradition and connection. This year in particular many of our traditions have been disrupted for the sake of safety. This is an area that you actually can control when it comes to your impulses to diet.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

11/24/2025

People often ask me about psychedelics, and while Ketamine is not a classic psychedelic medicine it can be a wonderful introduction to the psychological and spiritual aspects of journeying.

“This is the first time the food noise has been quiet,” Liv told me after her second ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) session. For years, she had lived with a nonstop inner dialogue about food, weight, and rules. From the moment she woke up until she went to bed, the chatter was there—lou...

09/30/2025

Today (and this week), Canadians commemorate the injustice perpetrated towards Native peoples through observing National Truth and Reconciliation Day/week.

The day honors the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.

We share a similar history in the US. The truth about the U.S. Indian boarding school policy has largely been written out of the history books. There were more than 526 government-funded, and often church-run, Indian Boarding schools across the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries. Indian children were forcibly abducted by government agents, sent to schools hundreds of miles away, and beaten, starved, or otherwise abused when they spoke their Native languages. You can learn more in the book, Medicine River, by Mary Annette Pember.
My hope is that we can learn from the stories of Native American families impacted by this tragedy.

06/02/2025

Jamie Varon