What Helps Men Who Overeat or Binge Overcome This Challenge?

While both men and women experience challenges with food, body image, and eating behaviors, social stigmas continue to perpetuate the idea that eating disorders are “women’s problems.” But what men [...]
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Eating Disorders, Experiential Somatic Awareness and Integration

Body distress or somatic integration often occurs when a person is under an extreme amount of stress and/or experiences trauma. Somatic awareness is when a person acknowledges their own self within [...]
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Is BMI an Accurate Measure of Healthy Weight?

Woman Dealing with Depression and Eating Disorders

Is Body Mass Index (BMI) an accurate way to measure whether you are at a healthy weight? It has been the standard of measurement for healthy weight for a number of [...]
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Is Eating Disorder Treatment Worth the Expense?

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are often the most well-known eating disorders. They come with varying symptoms and [...]
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Accepting Our Bodies: Making Peace with Ourselves

A positive body image consists of several various factors. A person with positive body image has a sense of acceptance, respect, and control of their body. Overall, a healthy body image [...]
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The Brain and Eating Disorders – Can the Brain be Repaired?

Woman struggling with grief and depression

Understanding and applying neuroscience to treatment and recovery can prove highly effective. Eating disorders affect all [...]
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10 Tips for Traveling and Maintaining Eating Disorder Recovery

Woman holding world globe while in Eating Disorder Recovery

Contributor: Kirsten Haglund, Community Relations Representative for Timberline Knolls and Founder and President of the Kirsten Haglund Foundation Today, travel is easier and cheaper than ever, making it a regular [...]
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Jenna’s Story of Anorexia Eating Disorder Recovery

Jenna's Anorexia Eating Disorder Recovery story

People often ask me why I left sunny San Diego, my home of eighteen years, to move to Fresno for college. I usually tell them that I got a scholarship, [...]
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PTSD and Bulimia: Relational Statistics & Trends

Bulimia and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) frequently occur together, primarily when a stressful or traumatic event occurs. Reactions can be overwhelming, and cause distress to the point of emotional impairment, dysfunction [...]
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Eating Disorders and the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tết)

The Lunar New Year is the biggest and most important holiday of the year in Vietnam (and most East Asian countries). Imagine the renewal of New Year’s Eve, plus the [...]
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