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Boston University professor Laura Lowery blogs about her continuous journey towards becoming a healthier human being

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  • Giving up the illusion of being “in charge”

    “It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what’s keeping things running right. We’re bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us […]

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    May 6, 2022
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  • What research shows about how to be happy

    A good friend of mine recently recommended a podcast episode that I listened to over the weekend, Arthur Brooks discussing his book, Strength to Strength, on Oprah’s Super Soul podcast. As I expected, I found it timely and so I went and actually bought the book as well. Arthur Brooks is a social scientist who […]

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    April 14, 2022
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  • Trying to start exercising again

    I took a break for the last month and a half from this blog, but I am hopeful to start writing again. During the last two months, I have really focused on relaxing as much as possible, when I’m not working. It’s amazing to me how difficult this can be, knowing how and when to […]

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    April 6, 2022
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  • Taking a longer break

    I’ve really enjoyed sharing my various stories over the last few months. I have received wonderful feedback from former students, and, for that, I am grateful. However, in my continuous journey towards being the healthiest version of myself, I have realized that I have recently been neglecting some of my regular stress relief strategies, such […]

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    March 1, 2022
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  • Taking off a week

    I’m going to take a week off from posting blogs. My child came home from the hospital last night (after staying there a week), and he is going to be staying at home from school the next few days and then next week is school vacation week. During this time, we are going to focus […]

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    February 16, 2022
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  • The importance of caring for yourself first

    In my last few posts, I have been discussing my child’s eating disorder and my disordered eating, and how I have realized that I will better serve my child if I can figure out how to better nourish myself. And it just so happened that I came across this writing from Rabbi Yisrael ben Ze’ev […]

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    February 14, 2022
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  • More reflections on my current eating challenges

    In my last post, I wrote about my own experiences with disordered eating. I described how, for years, I used to eat in a very “healthy” manner, but the way I did so, by weighing and tracking everything I ate, as an outlet for my OCD, was not particularly healthy. And then, beginning in 2020, […]

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    February 11, 2022
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  • Reflections on my own disordered eating

    My last two posts have been about my child’s eating disorder, which is currently the biggest stressor in my life right now. (This evening, my child is scheduled to be admitted to Boston Children’s Hospital’s inpatient eating disorder program.) Interestingly, when I went to post last Friday, it occurred to me how seemingly coincidental it […]

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    February 9, 2022
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  • I wrote my first poem in decades

    I wrote a poem during last week’s class of my Narrative Writing Program at BU. I have written about this program before. I took this class for BU faculty because I wanted support in writing my book, NOT because I ever wanted to write a poem. When I learned that the topic that day was […]

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    February 7, 2022
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  • My 12 year old child has an eating disorder

    I had another plan for what I was supposed to talk about today. But my mind is frazzled and distracted and I cannot think straight right now to write it. For a moment, I thought about posting that I was just going to take today off for personal reasons and leave it at that. But […]

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    February 4, 2022
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