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Embrace, the Body Image Movement, and Eating Disorder Recovery
One of the challenges that comes with eating disorder recovery is figuring out how to embrace who you are. This includes learning to be comfortable with your body image and natural body type, but also general self-acceptance and self-love. The Body Image Movement is playing a significant role in the overall shift of how people, [...]Read More
Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse: Co-Occurring Disorders
@ Dr. Sharon Zimbler, MA, MFT Sharon Zimbler, MA, MFT is a Marriage and Family Therapist at Montecatini Eating Disorder Treatment [...]Read More
Having an Eating Disorder During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a delicate time with many changes and transitions, and for a woman who may also be struggling with an eating disorder, such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder, this time can feel especially vulnerable. A woman who with other risk factors for an eating disorder may be triggered by the changes experienced [...]Read More
Why the Modeling Industry Needs Mental Health Education
Many years ago I opened up to one of my modeling agents in Miami about my chronic struggle with bulimia. At that point, I had been battling the illness for over fourteen [...]Read More
College and Bulimia: Managing Back to School Stress
@ Dr. Kim Dennis Kim Dennis, MD is CEO and Medical Director of Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment [...]Read More
Gastrointestinal Comorbidities Which Complicate Treatment of Anorexia
For the countless number of men and women who struggle with anorexia, recovery and treatment is a slow process that takes place over months and years. While anorexia is considered to be a psychiatric illness, there are many biological implications, and consequently, many physical effects that result from the behaviors associated with this disease. There [...]Read More
Relationship Between Body Shaming and Social Media Use
If you take a good look around you, there is no question that more and more people these days are engaged in some form of social media, either on smartphones, tablets, computers, and everything in between. Statistics show us that there are over 2.3 billion active social media users, with Internet users having an average [...]Read More
Creative Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Co-Occurring Disorders
Contributor: Rachel Wagner-Cantine, LCPC, BC-DMT, Mood Program Coordinator and Dance/Movement Therapist, Timberline Knolls Residental Treatment Center Although co-occurring disorders may manifest differently and require different diagnostic criteria, ultimately, they are interrelated. The disorders stem from a deeper dissonance or conflict. Whether a past traumatic experience, a disrupted attachment, or an emotional imbalance, the symptoms and [...]Read More
Helpful Resources For Individuals Struggling With Diabulimia
When it comes to eating disorders, people generally think of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder. However, there are other eating disorders that may not be as widely known but are just as severe. Diabulimia is an eating disorder in which people with Type 1 Diabetes directly manipulate their insulin medication for the [...]Read More
