How Wellness Culture is More Harmful Than You Think
Do you feel like you’re in a never-ending cycle of diets, weight loss programs, and disordered eating? Like many, you may have…
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From Struggle to Strength: How Family-Based Treatment Creates Lasting Recovery
Seeing someone struggle with an eating disorder can be heart-wrenching. Loved ones can feel helpless, not knowing how to assist in the…
Navigating Recovery in a Diet-Obsessed Society: Insights from Cole Kazdin
Have you ever felt like you have to be thin to be healthy, or hoped to lose weight as a side effect…
Finding the Good in Your Eating Disorder Traits with Carolyn Costin
Fighting an eating disorder can feel like an uphill battle. You’re constantly trying to resist the eating disorder voice and the controlling,…
5 Reasons Control is Linked to Eating Disorders
An eating disorder starts out as a way to gain control, until it starts controlling you. Control can be a coping mechanism…
How Long Does Eating Disorder Recovery Take?
How long does eating disorder recovery take? And is there a “right” or “wrong” way to recover? This was a question Laura,…
Exercise Addiction, Food Restriction, and Extreme Perfectionism
Though often overlooked, men are just as able as women to develop any type of eating disorder. Paul Beuttenmuller is living proof…
Is an Eating Disorder a Kind of Anxiety Disorder? An Expert Explains
What is underneath an eating disorder? A growing body of scientific research is starting to present the case that anxiety and eating…
30 Positive Affirmations to Empower Yourself in Eating Disorder Recovery
Affirmations. Do they work? ED recovery is hard. Really, really hard. There are days that make you feel empowered and fearless and…
What Recovery from an Eating Disorder is Really All About
Eating disorders affect people of all ages, races, genders, and sizes. Unfortunately, recovery from an eating disorder can feel terrifying. In a…
What Does it Mean to Recover From an Eating Disorder?
When I first entered into treatment, I believed that once I put on the weight I had lost and learned how to…
The Problem is NOT Your Body
The very first time I heard the statement “The problem is not your body, the problem is society,” I was listening to…
BODY DISCOMFORT: Key Takeaways From Eating Disorder Dietitian Tammy Beasley
Tammy Beasley, RDN, CEDRD-S is a registered dietitian with over three decades of experience helping people with eating disorders improve their relationship…
Why Diet Culture’s Calories In, Calories Out is The Worst Advice
I’m sure you’ve heard about the concept called “Calories In, Calories Out”. Calories in refers to the energy you get from the…