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The Most Important Key to Recovery

Overcoming fear and anxiety in eating disorder recovery is a process. It requires doing one hard thing at a time, over and over.

Updated on April 27, 2021April 27, 2021anti-diet anxiety body image dealing with emotions eating disorder negative thinking recovery resiliency

5 Tips for Handling Summer-Time Body Anxiety

It can be tough to overcome all the body anxiety summer brings up. Here are some tips to have more confidence without losing weight.

Updated on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021anorexia anti-diet anxiety binge eating bulimia eating disorder exercise Health At Every Size (HAES) recovery

Should You Keep Binge Foods in the House?

If you feel out of control around certain foods because you tend to binge on them, it can be scary to keep them in the house. Here’s what to do!

Updated on January 25, 2021January 25, 2021anorexia anxiety binge eating bulimia dieting eating disorder intuitive eating orthorexia

Do I Have an Eating Disorder?

Diet culture has made disordered eating seem so normal, you might not realize you have an eating disorder. Explore if you might actually have a problem that’s interfering with your life.

Updated on December 4, 2020December 4, 2020anorexia anxiety binge eating bulimia eating disorder intuitive eating orthorexia recovery

Remembering This Truth About Fear Can Make All the Difference in Eating Disorder Recovery

Recovery can feel scary, but reminding yourself what is actually safe versus unsafe can help in moving through the fear.

Updated on October 12, 2020April 23, 2020anorexia anti-diet anxiety binge eating body image bulimia eating disorder orthorexia recovery

#ScrewYourBeautyStandards

I used to be mad at myself for not being good enough. Then I realized our culture’s definition of beauty is narrow and oppressive to women, and I turned that anger to where it should be placed.

Updated on February 1, 2021March 25, 2020anorexia anti-diet anxiety binge eating bulimia eating disorder exercise Health At Every Size (HAES) recovery

Why Can’t I Stop Bingeing?!

If you’re stuck in a cycle of binge eating and promising yourself you’ll do better… only to end up binge eating again, find out what’s keeping that cycle going.

Updated on October 12, 2020September 13, 2018anorexia anxiety binge eating body image bulimia dealing with emotions depression eating disorder negative thinking panic attacks perfectionism recovery resiliency

A Potential Flaw in Positive Thinking Psychology

There’s a lot of talk these days about positive thinking and how important it is to change your thinking to improve your health and happiness. And while I won’t argue that our mindset affects our feelings and behavior (because I believe it absolutely does), I am concerned that we can put too much emphasis on …

Updated on October 12, 2020August 30, 2018anxiety boundaries dealing with emotions parents recovery relationships resiliency

When You Can’t Fix Your Family

Sometimes the people in our life who should love us the most and treat us with the most care, actually treat us with the most indifference. Or worse… inflict the most harm on us. It’s awful and it’s not fair, because we don’t get to pick our family. The good news is that as we …

Updated on June 8, 2018June 8, 2018anger anorexia anxiety binge eating bulimia dealing with emotions depression highly sensitive personality negative thinking overcoming perfectionism resiliency

The First Step to Being Happy

Some of us just never really seem to find or hang on to happiness for long. And yet there are some people who are happy even when life is really hard. During our lifetime, we will, without question, experience heartbreak or undeserved tragedies. No one is immune; suffering is an unavoidable part of the human condition. …