Castine Friberg – Willamette Wellness Center

What Does my Diagnosis Mean?

You’ve found a therapist, shared your feelings and presented your personal struggles. But, instead of receiving helpful guidance or useful tools, you are met with a confusing diagnosis – a complicated title and perhaps a sterile summary of what it means. Or worse yet, you don’t receive a diagnosis at all and don’t understand how/why/if […]

Weight is Much More than a Number

“Lose the weight, and then we can talk,” said the doctor, dressed in a fitted white medical coat, as he promptly denied surgery for the third time.  “Have you considered that maybe your weight is part of the reason you didn’t get the position?” asked a new friend as she sipped her skinny vanilla latte […]