How Your Religious Trauma May Be Impacting Your Disordered Eating
If you have a religious upbringing and experience disordered eating, it's important to consider how these two areas of your life may be interconnected.
How Therapy Can Help You Parent a Teen with an Eating Disorder
Whether your child is already connected with a treatment team, or you are newly navigating and learning about your options, you need support. You’re navigating a unique experience that will have its ups and downs.
How Eating Disorders Differ: Orthorexia vs. Anorexia vs. Bulimia vs. BED
Though there are often overlapping similarities in eating disorders, it’s helpful to understand how specific they differ. Knowing the differences can assist with effective diagnosis, tailored treatment, improved awareness, and it can help reduce stigmas by minimizing misunderstandings.
3 Ways Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is Different from Picky Eating
As an eating disorder therapist, I’m going to share my expertise on three ways Avoidant Retractive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is different from picky eating.
How Being Neurodiverse Can Impact Your Experience with an Eating Disorder
Neurodiverse individuals may struggle with sensory issues and executive functioning difficulties, hindering their ability to cultivate a positive relationship with food and often leading to negative impacts on their relationship with it.
What to do After a Binge
The Importance of Safety Fear Foods and Eating Disorder Recovery
Creating a sense of safety when exposing yourself to fear foods.
Perfectionism, Self-Worth, and Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are never just an eating disorder. While food restriction is one part of the problem, and often the primary reason my clients seek therapy, it is usually wrapped up with other issues, and perfectionism is a big one.
The Four Cs of Setting Boundaries
I encourage Clients to follow the four Cs. Boundaries should be Clear, Consistent, Consequential and, when appropriate, Compassionate.
Manage, Contemplate, Evaluate
Thoughts and feelings do not make you a good or bad person. They simply are what they are. They are morally neutral.
Values Based Eating Disorder Treatment
Eating disorders take over and disconnect people from their values. It’s impossible to make decisions rooted in your values because you are too preoccupied with making decisions that satisfy eating disorder thoughts.