Dr Laura Lowery's Blog

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

In a previous post, I wrote about how my gut shut down because of stress. This was one of the top three most horrific periods in my life (number one was in 2019/2020 after my job and marriage and family all fell apart at once, amidst covid; second was in 2006 when my oldest son…

I’ve already mentioned on several occasions in this blog that one focus of mine these days is to find strength and love and worthiness inside myself, and not look to others for external validation anymore. For years, I was so fixated on garnering praise from others. I was addicted to it. This is not an…