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.
Read MoreIdentifying the unhelpful thinking styles that you may use in relation to how you feel or think about food is a good way to develop a more respectful and trusting relationship with food. Dive deeper into understanding how these unhelpful ways of thinking may be affecting your relationship with food and body. Download your Unhelpful Thinking Styles: Food Edition Journal!
Read MoreLearn to explore the stories you tell about your body and your life.
Read MoreUse yoga practices like medtation, breathwork, and yoga throughout your day to support your eating disorder recovery.
Read MoreNext time you find yourself questioning your treatment needs, check-in here. You may have been asking the wrong questions all along…
Read MoreFinding yourself feeling stuck? Noticing Shoulds pulling strings in your life? It doesn’t have to be this way! Let’s start rewriting your Shoulds today.
Read MoreFeeling discomfort in recovery is to be expected and celebrated. Rather than act with automatic behaviors and judgment, get curious with that discomfort and practice sitting with the feeling with mindful awareness.
In eating disorder recovery, we have to get really uncomfortable to grow.
How can we work to change our relationship with what it means to be uncomfortable today and everyday?
Read MoreIn our diet culture world, it makes sense why you may feel guilty. We're bombarded with messages from family, friends, coworkers, and on social media about diets or wellness plans to follow, good/bad foods, or the best way to eat. It's so easy to get overwhelmed when you're hearing/seeing these messages, and I know how it may lead to feeling like you're not doing enough or eating 'right.'
Read MoreMaslow’s Hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology that first showed up in the United states in 1943 and has remained popular in psychological analyses. The pyramid was created by a psychologist, Abraham Maslow, who has been looking for the meaning of life since the beginning of his career, looking to understand what would make life meaningful for people.
Read MoreParts Work or Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a model developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Dr. Schwartz has formerly served as a family therapist and he recognized a significant resemblance between the interpersonal dynamics relationships with family members and our own relationship we have with our internal personality parts.
Read MoreBoth struggles and wins in our recovery raise our awareness. The eating disorder thrives in the unexplored. They both give us indispensable experiences. We need both. And it is this awareness that is so powerful because it gives us insight and understanding that we need to move forward.
Read MoreTo move through recovery with more compassion and perspective, we must first reconceptualize what progress looks like in recovery. When many think about what progress looks like, the majority of people may think of only a few things- the decrease or absence of behaviors and the decrease or absence of markers of illness or symptoms that the eating disorder creates.
Although, of course important and always on our radar, boxing recovery into those two things and have a narrow view of recovery can very well be one of your biggest barrier to recovery.
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