Posts in Eating Disorder Community
Healthism: Nuance, self-compassion, and re-defining “health” to fit your lived experience

Are you pursuing “health” in your life but coming up short? Are you feeling overwhelmed by all of the recommendations floating around in mainstream media and simultaneously ashamed that you can’t do it all? Keep reading to hear some thoughts on how to re-frame this concept and step into a more compassionate and nuanced space as it relates to your pursuit of health.

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How To Practice Neuroplasticity And Rewiring In Recovery

Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience. Brain cells are able to constantly communicate electrically with one another and form and re-form new connections, moment by moment...a unique kind of healing. The good news for recovery is that when we start to think, feel, and do things differently, we carve out a new road.

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How to Urge Surf and understand Eating Disorder Behaviors

As part of breaking the cycle of acting on ED behaviors in response to negative body image, you can learn skills to help tolerate urges for eating disorder behaviors.

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Body Image Activity: Letters to and From Your Body to Build Healthy Communication

Your relationship with your body and your body’s relationship with yourself is just that- a relationship. In relationships, what we need is an understanding, an ability to listen to one each, an ability to understand and mend, to ask each other what you both need.

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10 Characteristics of People with Positive Body Image

Body image research is DEFINITELY lacking but we do have an understanding based on the research that tells us about why some people have better body image than others and what qualities, skills, components they have that allow them to have a healthier, more positive relationship with their body.

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What is binge eating? How do I stop it?

Oftentimes people do not recognize that their binge episodes are related to under-eating throughout the day. When that happens, they can feel shame associated with misunderstanding their body and their current seemingly “uncontrolled” behavior around food. Learn more about binge eating!

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How do I recover from my eating disorder? Where do I start?

Recovery is out there and it is possible. If you find that you are struggling with an eating disorder, it is important that you seek the help you deserve. Eating disorders are real and life-threatening illnesses that require immediate treatment and you are more than deserving of recovery and a healthy relationship with food and body.

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How to Add Yoga Practices into your Day to Support Recovery

Use yoga practices like medtation, breathwork, and yoga throughout your day to support your eating disorder recovery.

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Grow as You Go Week 4: Pest Control

On a scale of 1 to 2020, how much negativity are you facing today? When it comes to the struggle, I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how real it is. I am writing this in late September 2020, the gift that keeps on giving. (Or rather, taking.) On the one hand…

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Grow as You Go Week 3: Symbiotic Relationships

They say no person is an island. And honestly, that’s not a great comparison, because even no island is an island! Islands are not a stand-alone ecosystem by any means. Their survival depends on the surrounding waters, the climate, migrating animals, and so on. Similarly, we as people are all connected and dependent on each other for survival, at least, and to thrive, at best…

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