Diets Do NOT Work Part II – Deprived Brains Trigger warning: This post includes content related to eating disorders and describes eating disorder behaviors, which you may find triggering if you are suffering from a restrictive eating disorder. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to Read more…
Trigger warning: This post includes content related to eating disorders. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: (800) 931-2237. Diets Do NOT Work Part I: Biology For the purpose of this post, I am defining “diet” as eating Read more…
Trigger warning: This post includes content related to eating disorders. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: (800) 931-2237. My Recovery Letters Today, Tuesday, May 1, is Eating Recovery Day. In 2014 (and again briefly in 2017), I Read more…
Trigger warning: This post includes content related to eating disorder triggers and behaviors. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: (800) 931-2237. In last week’s blog post, I explained most of the known risk factors for developing anorexia, Read more…
Trigger warning: This post includes content related to eating disorders. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: (800) 931-2237. Many people seem to relate to food and their bodies in a very “normal,” healthful, intuitive way. In fact, Read more…
Self-care is essential in the process of healing our relationships with food and body. Most of us who struggle in these areas have people-pleasing tendencies and find it very difficult to practice self-care. We consider it selfish, but it is not! As cliché as it is, the airplane analogy Read more…
Trigger warning: This post includes content related to eating disorder behaviors. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: (800) 931-2237. Mainstream media portrays one manifestation of disordered eating and eating disorders – anorexia nervosa among thin white Read more…
Here are some of the resources that I have personally used during my journey. I will add to this list as I discover more resources. Many of the books, websites, and podcasts that I list offer more comprehensive lists of resources available beyond the ones that I can recommend from Read more…
Trigger warning: This post includes content related to eating disorders, racism, fat-phobia, physical ability, homophobia, and gender identity. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: (800) 931-2237. If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please call 911 Read more…
Welcome to the Body Compassion Blog! Trigger warning: This post includes content related to eating disorders, self-harm, and sexual assault. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, please reach out to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: (800) 931-2237. If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please Read more…
