Reprised from 2012:”Ten Resolutions for A Healthy Eating Disorder Recovery”
Here’s a different take on the annual ritual, one you might find helpful in recovery. Perhaps you’ll make your own additions and revisions. This year I resolve to: Look in the mirror and pick out one...
View ArticleControl Yourself! (But Not Like that…)
Here’s a question for you: How much time and effort are you putting into trying to manage and control the way people respond to you? To answer this fairly, you have to count not only the open, obvious...
View ArticleTED Talks Presenter Has Powerful Message Relevant to Eating Disorder Recovery
Someone recently gave me a tip to listen to “the best TED Talks ever!” My to-read and to-listen lists are already infinite, so I’m not automatically excited about adding more to the queue. But she got...
View ArticleYour Nervous System: an Unexpected Ally for Eating Disorder Recovery
You probably don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about your nervous system, especially as something that can help you with eating disorder recovery. If you think about it all, it’s probably as a...
View ArticleTreating Your Dysregulated Nervous System
In my last post, “Your Nervous System: an Unexpected Ally for Eating Disorder Recovery”, I went over how and why the nervous system plays a role in the way we feel in a moment-to-moment way. To briefly...
View ArticleAnnouncing Superb Resource for Building Resilience in Eating Disorder Recovery
A while ago when I posted on the topic, “Building Resilience in Eating Disorder Recovery”, I defined resilience as the ability to bounce back when bad things happen to you. I also said: Resilient...
View ArticleInternational No Diet Day
Monday, May 6, is the 21st annual International No Diet Day. This is a day you can set aside to honor everything you value about your eating disorder recovery and to feel in solidarity with people all...
View ArticleWhat Does Recovery Look Like?
What does it mean to get better, to be ”in recovery” or “recovered” if you’ve had an eating disorder? For many people the answer is to be free of the symptoms of their eating disorder. For people with...
View ArticleEating Disorders and Complex PTSD
If you have an eating disorder, you may also have a condition called complex PTSD. Complex PTSD is a type of unresolved trauma. It occurs when the trauma is not a one-time thing but an ongoing...
View ArticleWhat to Expect from Treatment for Complex PTSD
In my last post, “Eating Disorders and Complex PTSD”, I described complex PTSD and listed some of the experiences typical of adults with this unresolved trauma disorder. Since the treatment of complex...
View ArticleRecovering from Bulimia
Recently I contributed to an article on recovery from bulimia posted on Beliefnet. If you’d like to check out what I and several other eating disorder professionals had to say on the subject, just...
View ArticleMaking Peace with Your Own Needs in Eating Disorder Recovery: Part I
If you are female and have an eating disorder, you almost certainly struggle with the issue of personal needs. Simply put, you’re not supposed to have any. You have played this issue out in the arena...
View ArticleMaking Peace with Your Own Needs in Eating Disorder Recovery: Part II
In my last post (2/28/14), I went over some of the lines of thinking that commonly interfere with recognizing and honoring personal needs among people with eating disorders. Today I discuss some ways...
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