New moms and women recovering from eating disorders face particular challenges during the pandemic. Here is one new mom’s experience along with questions exploring how to cope with sadness, isolation, and support while taking care of a new baby.
Read moreVision Collages: Guidance on Creating Your Vision for Your Recovery, Your Life, and You
What is a vision board? How can it help your recovery? How can you make one?
Read moreThe Diet Trap and 4 Ways to Survive the Holidays
Christmas cookies, Christmas cakes, Christmas turkey, egg nog, …I’ve been thinking about how the stress of compulsive eating, emotional eating, dieting, and disordered eating affect so many people this time of year...
It can be so tempting, to use food as a comfort for unmet feelings or to to diet/restrict food as a way to avoid or control uncomfortable feelings. However, it has been proven, again and again, that diets don’t work.
Here’s why and here’s what you can do instead.
Read moreWorld Eating Disorders Action Day: Breaking Stigma and Bringing Inclusion for Recovery
Eating Disorders do not just affect straight, white adolescent women…They are not a fad or a diet, they do not occur outside cultural context, and bringing awareness of intersectionality can help with prevention and treatment.
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