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Supporting Loved Ones Who Have Eating Disorders During the Holidays

Whether you are caring for or supporting someone living with an eating disorder, you may be doubting your ability to provide what your loved one needs. The holidays may prove an especially difficult time for your loved one fighting eating disorder, as this season brings several food-centered celebrations. Many people struggle to maintain their emotional [...]
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Thanksgiving’s Effect on Those Who Have an Eating Disorder

As the end of the year approaches, retail chains and people alike place a heavy focus on the holidays. While some people may love that the holidays bring generosity, traditions, and quality time spent with family, this time of year can be stressful, especially for those who are living with an eating disorder around Thanksgiving. [...]
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Coming to Terms with Eating Disorder Relapse in Your Employee

Group of People discussing cultural differences in mental health treatment

Being an employer is a complicated position. You have a business and bottom line to consider. However, the people that work for you are real, and they lead lives with loved ones, goals, and challenges outside of the work they do for you. Straddling this line can become difficult when your employee is diagnosed with [...]
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Mental Health in an Uncertain World. Choosing a Healthy & Self-Nurturing Lifestyle

While life has always held some degree of uncertainty (after all, none of us knows what the future holds), the world has become an even more uncertain place in the past six months due to the COVID-19 crisis. With so much uncertainty and an increased risk for mental health problems, taking care of your mental [...]
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Caring for Our Children During Residential Eating Disorder Treatment

Stronger Family Smiling After family-based therapy

I hope it is not surprising to you when I say that parents are not perfect. They appear so, working hard to keep the family together, coordinating school, extra-curricular activities, get-togethers, holidays, jobs, and daily life to make sure everyone is safe, happy, and healthy. Even so, parents are not superheroes, and they struggle with [...]
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Seeking Eating Disorder Treatment while in Divorce Proceedings

There is never a “convenient” time to engage in eating disorder treatment. Life involves many roles and responsibilities, none of which are easily cast aside to enter into an inpatient or residential facility or receive intensive care. The irony is that it is often the stress from these daily roles and stressors that triggers disordered [...]
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Coming to Terms with Eating Disorder Relapse in Your Adolescent

The nightmare happened. Your child was sick with an illness that you did not see coming or know how to help them. You are a loving and great parent. You supported them and learned what you needed to so that they could get the help that they needed. They are working toward finding recovery despite [...]
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Service Dogs and Eating Disorder Recovery

Emotional Support Animals and eating disorder recovery

Studies show that multi-faceted eating disorder treatment leads to the most successful outcomes. Broadly, this means individuals have a higher chance of recovery if they are treated by a team of therapists, medical doctors, nutritionists, and possibly physical therapists. Outside of these main players, individuals may enlist their own specific types of support, such as [...]
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Compulsive Exercise & Anorexia: A Dangerous Combination

Anorexia and compulsive exercise often go hand in hand. Tragically, they can be a dangerous (or even deadly) combination. But what is the driving motivator behind compulsive exercise in anorexics, and how does compulsive exercise specifically impact the physical and mental health of individuals with anorexia? What Is Compulsive Exercise? Before we look at the [...]
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Eating Disorders During the COVID-19 Crisis: The Importance of Engagement & Outreach

Woman concerned with her eating disorder and the upcoming holidays

A huge life-change or world event will impact individuals to varying degrees. Eating disorders during COVID-19 are no different. By late-May 2020, one-third of Americans were showing signs of clinician anxiety, presumably related to the outbreak of COVID-19 [1]. For some populations, the impact is predictable, and we have seen that in the way the [...]
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