Urge surfing is a strategy for how to deal with urges to engage in unhealthy behaviors like binge eating, self-harm, drinking and more!
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How to Deal with Body Shame in Relationships
Tips for how to deal with body shame and insecurity in your relationship.
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.
If You Worry Your Partner Doesn’t Like Your Body…
Romantic relationships can create a lot of fears around our appearance and weight. 4 tips to help manage those body anxieties.
Podcast: Seeking Control, Safety and Security in Our Bodies During Stress
Holidays are hard enough without COVID, so this year is extra challenging! It’s tempting to cope with your eating disorder behaviors to feel safer and more in control. Here are tips do take care of yourself in healthier ways!
5 Ways to Handle Food & Body Talk
Food and body talk at holiday gatherings can be triggering and hurtful. Here are some ways to respond to inappropriate comments from family or friends.
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 …
How to Talk to and Support Someone With an Eating Disorder
Here are some tips about how to help and support your child, teen, or anyone else you love with an eating disorder.
Letting Go Is So Cliché
We’ve all heard the phrase “let it go’ so often, it’s easy to gloss over. I almost yawned typing it. And yet, living it out is so much more than a feel-good catchphrase. It’s profound and painful… and utterly life-changing. There are two parts to this Letting Go Lesson, and today I’ll focus on the first. It’s about …
How You Can (Finally!) Disengage from a Toxic Parent
Many people know all to well what it’s like to grow up under a toxic parent (or parents). Whether it’s a mom or dad who’s narcissistic, alcoholic, neglectful, abusive, or has any number of other issues that render them incapable of providing the love and support every child deserves, children in these families struggle to make sense of …
