Be Your Best Advocate
Have you ever woken up one day thinking, “today I will have an eating disorder?” You probably haven’t. Many people who don’t have an eating disorder don’t understand. We don’t [...]
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How Eating Disorders Damage Teeth
Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions, but they also have a significant impact on physical health. Poor oral hygiene is one of the ways these conditions can physically manifest. [...]Read More
The Importance of Nurse-Engendered Interventions to Promote Hope in Patients with Eating Disorders
Contributor: Lisa M. Sabo, BSN, RN, PMHN-BC and Anna Lybarger, BSN, RN, PMHN-BC at Princeton Center for Eating Disorders Often, individuals with eating disorders come to treatment not ready for [...]Read More
Life Satisfaction & Eating Disorders
A recent study on life satisfaction (LS) among individuals with eating disorders (EDs) revealed the surprising truth about how eating disorders affect one’s outlook on life, plus uncovered new implications [...]Read More
Integrating Spirituality and Religion into Eating Disorder Recovery
Contributor: Nikki Rollo, Ph.D., LMFT, CEDS-S – National Director of Reasons Eating Disorder Center Integrating spirituality in eating disorder recovery is an essential part of any treatment model that takes [...]Read More
What is Body Checking and Why is it Dangerous?
Body checking is a term often used in the eating disorder realm. However, many do not know what it means or how common it is outside of the world of [...]Read More
Is Video-Chatting Amidst COVID-19 Decreasing Self-Image?
Amidst the whirlwind of changes that have become our “new normal” since the COVID-19 outbreak, the increase in video-chatting is one of the biggest changes worldwide. In mid-March 2020, Google [...]Read More
Coping with Feelings of Grief
Grief is a profound emotion that can be painful to hold and even more painful to let go of. While most of us will experience grief or loss in our [...]Read More
Coping with Feelings of Anger
Anger is one of 6 basic emotions identified in Paul Ekman’s “Atlas of Emotions.” These six emotions are ones that will be felt by everyone at one point or another [...]Read More
Coping with Feelings of Shame
Shame is likely one of the most powerful emotional states for humans to experience. Shame creates the potential for any individual to behave contrary to themselves out of avoidance, self-punishment, [...]Read More
