Skinny Models in the Media & Eating Disorders

Woman thinking about how her clothes affect her confidence

Fashion, beauty, and the thin ideal. These are some of the standards within the modeling industry, and with photoshop, many magazines, social media, and Hollywood promote the idea of the [...]
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Relationship Between Anorexia and Celiac Disease

There are various overlapping symptoms between anorexia and celiac disease. Both illnesses can exacerbate the other, making symptomatology in both worse. It may be hard for clinical professionals and practitioners to distinguish [...]
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Eating Makes Me Happy

Woman Dealing with Depression and Eating Disorders

I Feel Good Dopamine is our reward center within our brain. It is the chemical that is released when we do something that makes us feel good. It is also [...]
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Bulimia in Royalty – Inside Princess Diana’s Eating Disorder

Instances are few-and-far between of public figures discussing their eating disorders in years past. One instance of this that left an indelible impact came from a woman who has become [...]
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Stress, Tolerating the Unknown & Eating Disorder Development

Eating disorders and not all about food. It is often an underlying issue such as anxiety, depression, mood disorders, or trauma that lead a person to cope with symptoms through [...]
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The Many Different Roles of Shame in Eating Disorders

Man struggling with an Eating Disorder, Anxiety & Addiction

Shame is generally viewed as an emotion of self-comparison. As Theodore Roosevelt famously stated, “Comparison is the thief of joy,” and this is certainly true of shame in eating disorders [...]
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Eating Disorder Recovery: Grace and Dignity on the Winding Road

Nature Road Through Redwood National Park

October 11, [...]
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Chewing and Spitting – Do I have an Eating Disorder?

Woman laying in grass, struggling with Disordered Eating

In the realm of eating disorders, there are many behaviors that, while troublesome and harmful, may not be viewed as a disorder because they have no DSM diagnosis. However, one [...]
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Reducing Weight Stigma in Clinical Settings for ED Treatment

Woman working at reducing Weight Stigma in ED treatment

Weight stigma is a negative belief or judgment about another person or self, based on weight, shape, and size. In studies looking at weight stigma in the general population from [...]
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Anorexia Nervosa Experiencing Hunger and Fullness

What is “Hunger?” It seems like a silly question. We have all felt it at some point, but, what is the biological and neurological process of “hunger?” Hunger is a [...]
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