Poor Body Image: How I’ve Helped Improve My Self-Esteem

What Is Body Image? Body image is defined by the National Eating Disorders Association as how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself [...]
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Making Eating Disorder Recovery Part of Your Meaningful Life

Woman struggling with bulimia looking at lake

Contributor: Emily Keehn, M. Ed., LPC, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Specialist for Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center. What Is A Meaningful Life A meaningful life. What is it? Maybe, it is [...]
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Eating Disorder Treatment & Families in the Recovery Process

Stronger Family Smiling After family-based therapy

The role of family can be extremely helpful in the eating disorder treatment process. Looking at alternative models, such as the Maudsley Model, families can take an active lead in [...]
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Codependent Spouses and Participation in Treatment

Husband And Wife Discussing Family Therapy

Codependency can be considered a behavior. It emotionally and behaviorally affects relationships, and the person suffering with a codependent personality has much difficulty maintaining or even forming healthy relationships. Typically, [...]
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Yoga: How It Can Help Eating Disorders

Eating disorders, including Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating Disorder, take a tremendous toll on any individual who has suffered through these diseases. It influences the mind, body, and spirit of [...]
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Finding an Eating Disorder Specialist in a Foreign Country

Being in a positive and supportive environment is key to maintaining stability throughout the changing waves of eating disorder recovery. But life is not always stable. We move and travel [...]
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Body Image and Beaches in California

Woman on the beach struggling with co-occurring disorders

California. The very name of the golden state bears a multitude of connotations, including Hollywood, celebrities, the movie industry, high-end fashion and an entire coastline of beaches. California possesses its [...]
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Crisis in the Family: Mom’s in Eating Disorder Treatment

Mother explaining residential eating disorder recovery to her family

It’s no secret that moms are superheroes. We tend to be the ones that keep our family calendar, do the grocery shopping, take care of the kids and spouse. Moms [...]
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ED Prevention & Labeling Retouched Photos, is it Effective?

Mass media publications and advertisements have long portrayed unrealistic and unattainable body types. This tendency has worsened over time, as the women in magazines continue to become less representative of [...]
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Volunteering and International Eating Disorder Studies

Eating disorder research is crucial in furthering the understanding of these severe psychiatric illnesses, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Researchers and scientists across the globe are [...]
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